The buff brick gable wall of the Ohio house in 2019, two tall windows with cast stone headers under a shingled roof
Case File 355

Staining Cut Brick on an Ohio Home Where Red Showed

A few brick on this house were cut before they went into the wall, and the red body under the light coated face was reading through. The mason who laid the wall hired the correction. The same window was photographed again seventeen years later.

Case No. 355
Structure House
Location Ohio
Stained 2002
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 17 years, Platinum level

2002

  1. A window in 2002 framed by cast stone blocks, several cut brick in the jambs and the header reading pink and red against the buff wall around them Before, 2002 View this photo larger
  2. The same window in 2002 after staining, seen from further back under the soffit, the cut brick now sitting in the buff range that runs on around the outside corner After, 2002 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Cutting a red bodied brick with a light coated face releases brick dust, and the file records what that dust does: it changes the face of the brick. A few of the cut units here were contaminated that way before they were laid, and the red underneath was showing through the buff wall around them. Nothing had failed.

What was done

Mineral stain on the red body color that was showing through, on a few brick. The file is even handed about the scale: this does not have to be a huge problem. The rest of the wall was left as laid.

2019, seventeen years on

  1. The house in 2019, buff brick running from the arched louver in the gable peak down past two tall windows to the lawn and the front walk 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The same window and outside corner in 2019, the buff brick holding one range across both walls, with a spruce grown up across the left of the frame 17 Years After View this photo larger

What seventeen years prove

Same window, same outside corner, and the cut brick still sit inside the range of the wall around them. On the certification scale that is Platinum, twenty years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty four years old, and 2019 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 355, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 355, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Residence, Ohio (2002)
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
Color change
Issue
"A few cut brick were contaminated before installation, and the red was showing through"
What was corrected
"We stained the red body color that was showing through on a few brick"
Storyline
"Sometimes you make brick cuts on a red bodied brick with a light coating, and the brick dust changes the face of the brick. This doesn't have to be a huge problem - we can help you sell brick."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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