The long side wall of the Ohio ranch house in 2019, red brown brick running one range down its length under a white soffit
Case File 326

Staining the Join Between an Ohio Home and Its Addition

An addition went onto this single-story brick home and the brick between the new work and the old did not match. The homeowner hired the correction in 1995. The house was photographed again twenty-four years later and certified then.

Case No. 326
Structure Single-story ranch home
Location Ohio
Stained 1995
Re-photographed October 2019
Elapsed 24 years, Platinum level

1995

  1. The corner of the ranch house in 1995 under a young tree, the long wall beyond it showing a paler block of brick beside the shrubs where the addition meets the original During, 1995 View this photo larger
  2. The side wall of the house in 1995 with a storm door, two windows and a meter, the brick a dark red brown with lighter units scattered through it During, 1995 View this photo larger

What was wrong

An addition had been built onto the house and the brick where new met old did not match. The file puts it plainly: the area between the new addition and the old brick was very off-colored. Nothing had failed; two runs of brick did not read as one wall. The homeowner hired the correction.

What was done

The work was confined to the join. The file records it in one line: we stained the area between the new addition and the old. One range across the seam, not a new color for the house.

2019, twenty-four years on

  1. The long side of the single-story brick house in 2019, seen down its length from one end, with a satellite dish on the wall, a condenser unit at its foot and open farmland beyond 2019 View this photo larger
  2. A blank run of red brown brick wall in 2019 under the eave, with a downspout, a rain barrel and potted flowers at its foot and the certification stamp in the corner After, 2019 View this photo larger
  3. A close view of the brick in 2019, red brown units with a rough wire-cut face and pale grey mortar joints 2019 View this photo larger
  4. A single window in the red brown brick wall in 2019 under a white soffit, the brick running one range across the whole frame down to the concrete footing 24 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty-four years prove

In the 2019 frames the long wall reads as one range of brick from end to end. On the certification scale that is Platinum, twenty years and over. The file's own note is shorter: the home looks great 24 years later. As of 2026 the work is thirty-one years old, and the 2019 certification 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 326, 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 326, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
OH Residence (1995)
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 homeowner
Reason for project
Color change
Issue
"An area between the new addition and the old did not match."
What was corrected
"We stained the area between the new addition and the old."
Storyline
"The area between the new addition and the old brick was very off-colored so we were hired to fix the area. The home looks great 24 years later."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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