The arched brick entry of the Ohio house in 2019, its brick reading as one even warm red range
Case File 254

Color Correcting Power Wash Damage on an Ohio Home

A powerwash left damage on the brick across the front and both sides of this house. The mason or contractor hired the correction, not the homeowner. It was photographed again twenty-two years later and certified then.

Case No. 254
Structure Two-story house
Location Ohio
Stained 1997
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 22 years, Platinum level

1997

  1. The front of the house in 1997, a projecting chimney breast with a herringbone brick panel standing between two arched windows, the brick around it mottled pink and mauve Before, 1997 View this photo larger
  2. An outside corner of the house in 1997 under its hipped roof and cream eaves, the brick reading as blotchy pink and mauve across both faces Before, 1997 View this photo larger

What was wrong

A powerwash took color off the brick. The file records where in one line: there was powerwash damage on the front and both sides of the residence. It also records the scale, which is unusually candid for a case file. Not as severe as some we have seen, it says, but enough to upset the homeowners.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, on the damaged areas only. Not a coat across the elevation. The phrase in the file is that the damaged areas were color corrected, so the brick the powerwash never reached is still the brick the house was built with.

2019, twenty-two years on

  1. The arched brick entry of the house in 2019, carriage lamps either side of the opening and planted urns on the step, the brick one even warm red range up to the second floor 2019 View this photo larger
  2. A side wall of the house in 2019 with an arched window under a radiating brick arch, the brick reading as one even red range across the whole elevation, with the certification stamp in the corner 22 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The corner of the garage wing in 2019, carriage lamps above the doors and the brick reading as one even red range across both faces in raking light 2019 View this photo larger

What twenty-two years prove

Same house, same walls, and the corrected areas still reading with the brick around them. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. The claim in the file is that stained brick still weathers naturally, and twenty-two years of Ohio weather is what the 2019 frames are. As of 2026 the work is twenty-nine years old.

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 254, 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 254, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
OH Powerwash Damage (1997)
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 powerwash damage on the front and both sides of the residence."
What was corrected
"We color corrected the damaged areas."
Storyline
"This powerwash damage was not as severe as some we have seen, but it was enough to upset the homeowners. 22 years ago we corrected the damaged areas and they still look great today. This job is a perfect example of our the stained brick still weather naturally just" (the last sentence runs off the end of the form and is transcribed as written).
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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