The curved block volume of the Michigan temple in 2019, light accent courses banding the tan wall above a long low wing
Case File 264

Staining Block and Mortar in One Wall of a Michigan Temple

One area in the middle of the wall was the whole job. The mason or contractor hired the correction, and the file records half a day on site in 2000. The wall was photographed again nineteen years later and certified Platinum.

Case No. 264
Structure Temple
Location Michigan
Stained October 2000
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 19 years, Platinum level

2000

  1. The curved block wall in 2000, pale accent courses banding a darker field, a patch near the middle of the wall reading lighter than the block around it, a boom lift parked at the foot of the wall and the camera date 10 14 '00 burned into the frame Before, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wrong

One area in the middle of the wall, and nothing else. The file names no failure and no defect in the block itself. The mason or contractor hired the work rather than the owner, which is what the Hired By line on the form records.

What was done

Mineral stain on the block and on the mortar, in that one area. The joints were carried with the units rather than left as a gap between colors, which is what lets a patch disappear into a wall that is already banded. The file records half a day on site.

2019, nineteen years on

  1. The building from the road in 2019, a tall curved block volume with light accent courses stepping across it, joined to a long low wing, with pines at the left and a parking drive and lawn across the foreground 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The curved wall from its outside corner in 2019, tan block banded with pale accent courses, a white block wing and a red door at the left and a small tree in front After, 2019 View this photo larger
  3. The same wall in 2019 from further left, a pine branch across the top corner of the frame and the accent courses running unbroken from the white wing to the curve After, 2019 View this photo larger
  4. Looking up the curved wall in 2019, pale accent courses raking away across the tan block, the units and the joints reading as one range, with a wall light near the top right 19 Years After View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

The corrected area is not picked out in any of the 2019 frames. The block and the joints read as one range across the curve. On the certification scale that is Platinum, twenty years and over, signed in 2020. As of 2026 the work is twenty-six years old and the 2019 revisit is the most recent record on it.

The signed file

Every certified job gets the same form, signed on the day someone goes back to the building. This is the one for case 264, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

Scan of the case study form for case 264, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Temple, Michigan (2000)
Level
Platinum. The scale runs Bronze at seven to nine years, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
Hired by
The mason or contractor
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"There was one area in the middle of the wall that we were hired to fix."
What was corrected
"We stained both the block and mortar in the area in question."
Storyline
"It took only half a day to fix this area, and it still looks good today."
Address
"Release permission required"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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