The front of the house in 1996 after the blend, light and dark brick running together across both gable wings and the covered porch between them
Case File 122

Adding Color Range to an Ohio Home with a Covered Porch

The brick on this house went up with large areas carrying almost no color range at all. The company that made the brick paid to have it blended in 1996, while the yard was still bare dirt. It was photographed again twenty-three years later and certified then.

Case No. 122
Structure Two-story brick home
Location Ohio
Stained 1996
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 23 years, Platinum level

1996

  1. The front corner of the house in 1996, the brick reading as one flat buff tan across the gable end, the garage wall and the wing beyond it Before, 1996 View this photo larger
  2. The front of the house later in 1996, light, mid and dark brick now mixed through both gable wings and the wall beside the covered porch After, 1996 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts it in one line: there were large areas around the house with little to no color range. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty, and the house was new. The Hired by line reads brick manufacturer, so the company that made the brick paid to put it right.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the brick by hand, unit by unit. Not one color over the whole wall. The file is exact about the method: several new colors were added to the brick for a better blend. The storyline says why, a better blend of light and dark shades across the range.

2019, twenty-three years on

  1. The house from across its lawn in 2019, grown trees over a mown yard and the brick behind them still reading as a range of light and dark units, with the certification stamp at the corner of the frame 23 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty-three years prove

The mark on the file is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over on the certification scale. Twenty-three years after the work, the walls still read as a range of brick rather than as one flat tone. As of 2026 the house is thirty 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 house. This is the one for case 122, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 122, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Ohio Residence (1996)
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
Brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issues
"There were large areas around the house with little, to no color range."
What was corrected
"We added several new colors to their brick for a better blend."
Storyline
"We added a few new colors to the range of brick to help create a better blend of light and dark shades."
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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