The courtyard side of an Ohio medical center in 2019, an even range of tan brick running across the single-story block
Case File 123

Staining an Off Color Patch on an Ohio Medical Center

One patch of brick on this building did not match the range around it. It was stained into that range rather than replaced, and the building was photographed again twenty-two years later and certified then.

Case No. 123
Structure Multi-story medical center
Location Ohio
Stained June 1997
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 22 years, Platinum level

1997

  1. A tall blank wall of brick on the medical center in 1997, its color reading grey beside the warmer cream brick of the corner block next to it, with an extension ladder up to the roof below Before, 1997 View this photo larger
  2. The same wall in 1997 after staining, the large panel now reading the same warm tan as the corner block beside it, the ladder still leaning on the roof After, 1997 View this photo larger

What was wrong

A patch of brick on the building did not match the range around it. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The file puts it in one line: there was a patch of brick that did not match the rest of the range.

The form marks the client as a business or corporation, not the mason and not the brick supplier.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed in by hand, on the off-color units only. The wall around them was left alone. The line in the file is: we stained the off-colored brick to match the rest of the range.

2019, twenty-two years on

  1. The courtyard entrance of the medical center in 2019, the tan brick of the single-story block and the buff brick of the tower behind it each reading as an even range 22 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty-two years prove

The mark on the file is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over on the certification scale. The storyline is written for restoration companies with small areas to fix: 22 years later and it still looks good. As of 2026 the work is twenty-nine 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 123, 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 123, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Medical Center in OH (1997)
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
Business or corporation
Reason for project
Other
Issue
"There was a patch of brick that did not match the rest of the range."
What was corrected
"We stained the off-colored brick to match the rest of the range."
Storyline
"This job is a great example for restoration companies that have small areas they need fixed. 22 years later and it still looks good."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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