The front of the Ohio house in 2019, brick running as one color across the upper floor, the round window over the entry and the bay below
Case File 290

Correcting Power Wash Damage on an Ohio Brick Home

A power washer took the color out of part of the brick on this house. The mason who had laid the wall hired the correction in 2002. It was photographed again seventeen years later and certified then.

Case No. 290
Structure Two-story house
Location Ohio
Stained July 2002
Re-photographed September 2019
Elapsed 17 years, Platinum level

2002

  1. The garage gable in 2002, tan brick around a shuttered gable window with a lantern on the pier below and a ladder standing at the right Before, 2002 View this photo larger
  2. The gable wall in 2002, a marked line stepping down through the courses beside the shuttered window, pale washed brick on one side of it and fuller red brick on the other, with a ladder standing below During, 2002 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file gives it in one line: some of the brick on this home was ruined by a power washer. The 2002 frame shows where. A line is marked down the gable in steps, and the courses inside it read pale and flat against the brick beyond it.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand across the damaged areas. The work was under way in July 2002: the van in the Before frame carries a burned-in camera date of 7 28 '02.

2019, seventeen years on

  1. The whole front of the house in 2019, the brick gable, the bay window and the arched entry holding one range of brick under a clear sky 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The same gable in 2019, the brick reading as one range from the roof rake down past the shuttered window to the courses below After, 2019 View this photo larger
  3. The front gable in 2019, a round louvred vent ringed with brick, the courses around it holding one color out to the eaves 17 Years After View this photo larger

What seventeen years prove

Same gable, same courses, one range from the rake boards down. The file is even handed about it: not the worst power wash damage that we've seen, but enough to upset the homeowners. The form marks Platinum. As of 2026 the work is twenty-four 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 290, 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 290, 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
Other
Issue
"Some of the brick on this home was ruined by a power washer."
What was corrected
"We color corrected all the damaged areas."
Storyline
"Not the worst power wash damage that we've seen, but it was enough to upset the homeowners. Don't let power wash damage ruin your curb appeal forever!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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