The brick wing of the Ohio house in 2019, one grey and lavender range running past two windows to a planted bed
Case File 310

Matching New Brick to Old on an Ohio Home Addition

The homeowners built an addition and wanted the new brick to match the house. The file records several custom recipes developed for the wall and one hundred percent of the brick stained. It was photographed again eleven years later.

Case No. 310
Structure House with a brick addition
Location Ohio
Stained 2008
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 11 years, Gold level

2008

  1. The addition wall in 2008, red brick carrying broad pale cream flashing across whole courses, a white-framed window in the middle and a downspout at the inside corner Before, 2008 View this photo larger
  2. An applicator standing on a step stool in 2008, working stain into the same wall by hand with a small brush and a cup in his other hand During, 2008 View this photo larger
  3. The same wall in 2008 with the work finished, the brick reading as a grey and lavender range with dark units scattered through the courses After, 2008 View this photo larger

What was wrong

An addition, and a wall that did not match the house it was joining. In the 2008 frame the new brick is red with broad pale cream flashing running across whole courses. Nothing had failed. The homeowners hired the correction themselves.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, every brick on the wall rather than a patch. The note in the file is about the limits as much as the method: size and texture have to be matched at the brick yard, because color is the only one of the three that can be corrected afterwards.

2019, eleven years on

  1. The house from the garden in 2019, a single-story brick wing running back from a two-story gable in siding, a large tree in the foreground and planted beds along the wall After, 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The stained wall in 2019 from the same side as the 2008 frames, the grey and lavender range running past the window with shrubs and hydrangeas grown in along the base After, 2019 View this photo larger

What eleven years prove

Same wall, same window, same range, with the beds grown in around it. The file marks the level Gold, which the same form sets at fifteen years and over, while the revisit frames are dated eleven years after the work. As of 2026 the wall is eighteen 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 310, 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 310, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Residence, Ohio (2008)
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
"The homeowners wanted a better match for their addition"
Actions taken
"We developed several custom recipes and stained 100% of the brick"
Detail of events
"For any home addition, we suggest finding the closest match in size and texture, and then try to get a close base color match. We can fix color issues but we cannot change a brick’s size and texture"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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