The front of the Ohio house in 2019, the original wall and the addition on the right carrying one cream brick range under white siding
Case File 361

Staining a Brown Ohio Home Addition to Match White Brick

The homeowners built an addition and the brick the house was built from was no longer available. The file records the brown addition stained to the white of the rest of the home. It was photographed again sixteen years later.

Case No. 361
Structure House with a brick addition
Location Ohio
Stained October 2003
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 16 years, Gold level

2003

  1. The new addition in 2003, a wall of plain red brick meeting the cream brick of the original house at a flush corner under the same white siding Before, 2003 View this photo larger
  2. The house partway through the work in 2003, the lower courses of the addition already carried to cream while a band of red brick is still untreated above them, an applicator kneeling at the bed in front During, 2003 View this photo larger
  3. The addition from the side in 2003 with the work finished, its brick reading as the same cream range as the original wall running away behind it After, 2003 View this photo larger

What was wrong

An addition, and no way to buy the brick the house was built from. The 2003 frame shows the joint plainly: plain red on the new wall, cream on the old one, meeting at a flush corner under the same siding. Nothing had failed. The homeowners hired the correction themselves.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the new brick by hand, taking the brown wall to the white of the rest of the home. The During frame catches it mid-wall, the lower courses carried over and a band above them still red. The note in the file is about what cannot be corrected afterwards: size and texture have to be matched at the brick yard.

2019, sixteen years on

  1. The whole front of the house in 2019, the original brick and the single-story addition on the right reading as one cream range under white siding and dark shutters After, 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The same elevation closer in 2019, the addition's brick carrying past the bay window into the original wall with a white rail fence and grown-in shrubs along the front 16 Years After View this photo larger

What sixteen years prove

Same elevation, same corner, one range across the old brick and the new. The file marks the level Gold, which the same form sets at fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-three years old and the 2019 photographs are 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 361, 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 361, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Residence, Ohio (2003)
Level
Gold. The scale runs Bronze at seven years and over, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
Hired by
The homeowner
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Background
"When the homeowners added an addition to their home, the original brick was not available"
Actions taken
"We stained the brown addition to a white color to match the rest of the home"
Detail of events
"They were able to find a brick with similar size and texture, which makes all the difference for trying to match an addition!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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