The Ohio house seen from across its front lawn in 2019, the cream brick reading as one even range across every gable
Case File 261

Correcting Off Range Corner Shapes on an Ohio Home

The shaped bricks at the corners of this house did not match the wall around them. The company that made the brick paid to have them corrected rather than torn out. It was photographed again twenty-one years later and certified then.

Case No. 261
Structure Two-story house
Location Ohio
Stained 1998
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 21 years, Platinum level

1998

  1. The canted bay in 1998, the shaped bricks turning its angled corners reading darker and more orange than the cream brick around them Before, 1998 View this photo larger
  2. The arched front entrance in 1998, a brick arch turned over the tall transom and the surrounding wall running from cream to tan Before, 1998 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The angled units that turn the corners of the bay came out a different color from the field brick beside them. The file puts it in six words: the corner shapes were off-color.

It was hired by the brick manufacturer, not the owner and not the mason. A brick company decided the color of a finished house it had supplied was its own problem, and paid for staining over tear-out.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. The file records color enhancing the shapes and the other areas that needed attention, so the walls still read as a range of creams and tans rather than one flat color.

2019, twenty-one years on

  1. The house seen from the kerb across its front lawn in 2019, the brick reading as one even cream and tan range across the gables and the garage wing 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The gable end of the house in 2019, the brick an even cream and tan range from the flower bed up to the eaves, with the certification stamp in the lower corner After, 2019 View this photo larger
  3. The arched entrance and the two front gables in 2019, the arched window in the gable head and the wall below it holding one cream and tan range 21 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty-one years prove

Same house, same corners, and a range that is still the range it was mixed to. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. The 2019 revisit was made from the kerb at the owner's request, so every frame from that year is shot at a distance; the file says so, and records the stain still holding up well.

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 261, 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 261, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
OH Residence (1998)
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 brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issues
"The corner shapes were off-color."
What was corrected
"We color enhanced the shapes and other areas that needed attention."
Storyline
"We were unable to get a good look when we revisited the site due to the homeowners request, but from what we could tell from the pictures the stain is still holding up well."
Address
"Permission needed to release address."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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