A wall of the house in 2019, its brick an even red and tan range below a shuttered window

Case File 160

Staining an Off Color Run at the Oakview Home Corner

A run of off color brick landed together at the lower corner of this house, to the left of the front door. The company that distributed the brick paid to have that one area stained. It was photographed again twenty years later and certified then.

Case No. 160

Structure Two-story brick home

Location Pennsylvania

Stained July 1999

Re-photographed 2019

Elapsed 20 years, Platinum level

1999

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The units did not agree with each other and the wrong ones landed together in one place. The file puts it in a line: lower corner of the house had an off color run of brick.

It was hired by the brick distributor, not the family and not the mason. The company that sold the brick treated the color of a finished house as its own problem.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, on that one run and nothing else: we just stained the one area to the left of the front door. Two recipes went into it, the first for the base color and the second for what the file calls wings, staining only the edge of a brick with a new color. Both 1999 frames carry the same camera date, 23 July.

2019, twenty years on

What twenty years prove

One area was corrected, not a house, and twenty years later it is the part of the wall nobody can point to. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-seven years old, and 2019 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 house. This is the one for case 160, 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 160, filled in and signed

Project name: "Oakview Residence (1999)". The form names no town and no state.
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 brick distributor
Reason for project: Complaint or problem
Issue: "Lower corner of the house had an off color run of brick."
What was corrected: "We just stained the one area to the left of the front door."
Storyline: "We created two recipes for this project. The first was for the base color. The other recipe was created to add ‘wings’. ‘Wings’ are when we only stain the edge of the brick with a new color."
Address: "Permission needed to release address"
Authorized: Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019

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