The gated stone entry and green garage door of the Snow Trail home in 2019, burgundy units scattered through grey and tan coursed stone under a red brown fascia
Case File 323

Adding Burgundy to the Stone Range on an Ohio Home

The stone on this home went up without the burgundy the customer had chosen from the range. The distributor who sold it paid to have a small percentage of burgundy added rather than have the wall taken down. Photographed again twenty-one years later and certified then.

Case No. 323
Structure Home, stone
Location Snow Trail, Ohio
Stained 1998
Re-photographed October 2019
Elapsed 21 years, Platinum level

1998

  1. An applicator on a ladder in 1998 working stain into the grey and tan stone wall beside the entry door, a second ladder leaning on the wall and a tarp on the ground During, 1998 View this photo larger
  2. An applicator seated on a blue tarp in 1998 staining the base of the stone wall under the porch roof, a ladder leaning on the wall beside him During, 1998 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The customer wanted a burgundy color that was missing from the range. That is the whole complaint in the file, and the 1998 frames show it: grey and tan stone with almost no red in it. This is coursed stone rather than brick, and the distributor who sold it hired the correction.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, one unit at a time. Not a color over the wall: a small percentage of the stone was turned burgundy so the range read as sold. The file's own line is the point: sometimes all it takes to make a difference is to add a small percent of color.

2019, twenty-one years on

  1. The gated stone entry and green garage door of the home in 2019, burgundy units scattered through grey and tan coursed stone under a red brown fascia, a potted tree on the step 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The stone wall beside the entry gate in 2019 up close, burgundy units sitting among grey and tan stone with an intercom and an outlet cover on the wall 2019 View this photo larger
  3. The long side elevation of the home in 2019, coursed stone running past a glazed door and a row of windows under a red brown eave, with the certification stamp in the corner After, 2019 View this photo larger
  4. The outside corner of the garden wall at the entry gate in 2019, burgundy units scattered through the tan and grey stone on both faces 21 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty-one years prove

In the 2019 frames the burgundy units sit scattered through the tan and grey on the entry, the garden wall and the side elevation, the way a blend should read. On the certification scale that is Platinum, twenty years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-eight 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 building. This is the one for case 323, 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 323, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Snow Trail Store OH (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 distributor
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"The customer wanted a burgundy color that was missing from the range."
What was corrected
"We added a small percentage of burgundy."
Storyline
"We did not need to add a lot of the burgundy color but sometimes all it takes to make a difference is to add a small percent of color."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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