The gable and entrance canopy of a brick funeral home in 2019, the brick reading as one even range
Case File 004

Correcting Off Color Brick Runs on a Pennsylvania Funeral Home

The brick on this two-story funeral home went up with runs of off-color units blotching the exterior. The company that made the brick paid to have it corrected in 2000. It was photographed again nineteen years later.

Case No. 004
Structure Two-story funeral home
Location Pennsylvania
Stained 2000
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 19 years, Platinum level

2000

  1. The front gable of the funeral home in 2000, the brick varying in tone from course to course beneath a large arched window Before, 2000 View this photo larger
  2. The side wall of the funeral home in 2000, the upper courses reading much darker than the paler brick below them Before, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts it in one line: many blotchy areas throughout the exterior of the building due to off-colored brick runs. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. Whole runs of brick sat outside the range of the brick around them. It was hired by the brick manufacturer, not by the owner.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the brick by hand, unit by unit. Not one color over the wall: the file records lightening some areas and darkening others until the off runs sat inside an acceptable color range.

2019, nineteen years on

  1. The funeral home seen from the street across its front lawn in 2019, the brick reading as one even range from the gable to the wing beyond 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The same front gable nineteen years on, the brick reading as one range from the ridge down to the porch roof 19 Years After View this photo larger
  3. The same side wall in 2019, the brick carrying one even range from the eaves down to the garage doors 2019 View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

Same gable, same side wall, nineteen years apart, and the dark run across the top of that side elevation now reads in range with the brick below it. The mark on the file is Platinum, twenty years and over on the certification scale, and the form was signed in 2020. As of 2026 the work is twenty-six 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 004, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 004, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Funeral Home, PA (2000)
Level
Platinum. The scale runs Bronze at seven years and over, Silver at ten and over, Gold at fifteen and over, Platinum at twenty and over.
Hired by
The brick manufacturer
Cause
Complaint or problem
Background
"There were many blotchy areas throughout the exterior of the building due to off-colored brick runs"
Actions taken
"We corrected the brick that were not in the correct range of color"
Detail of events
"This project took some time but after lightening and darkening several areas of the building, we created an acceptable color range that still looks great today!"
Address
"Release permission required"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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