The back of the house in 2019, the two-story section and the wing beside it reading as one even buff and tan range from the eaves down
Case File 163

Matching Brick From a Different Run on a Rear Elevation

Brick from a different run went up on the back of this house, so one area of the wall never matched the rest of it. A mason paid to have that area put right in 1999. The same elevation was photographed again twenty years later and certified then.

Case No. 163
Structure Two-story brick home
Location Pennsylvania
Stained 1999
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 20 years, Platinum level

1999

  1. The back wall of the house in 1999, the courses above the window band reading a deeper red than the lighter, patchier brick running across the wall below it Before, 1999 View this photo larger
  2. The same back wall later in 1999, seen wider, the brick below the window band now carrying the same range as the wall above it, with the chimney and the lower wing beyond After, 1999 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts it in one line: there were areas on the back of the house where the brick installed were from a different run. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The Hired by line reads mason or contractor, so the trade that laid the brick paid to put it right.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the brick by hand, unit by unit. The file is exact about the extent, and the extent is the point: 100% of the brick in one area, rather than a few units spot-matched into the middle of a wall.

2019, twenty years on

  1. The back of the house in 2019, the two-story section with its french doors, the tall window at the left and the single-story wing at the right all reading as one even buff and tan range, with the certification stamp at the corner of the frame 20 Years After View this photo larger

What twenty years prove

The mark on the file is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over on the certification scale. The storyline says twenty years later the job still looks as good as the day the crew left it. As of 2026 the work is twenty-seven 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 house. This is the one for case 163, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.

The case study form for case 163, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Pennsylvania Residence (1999)
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
Mason or contractor
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issues
"There were areas on the back of the house where the brick installed were from a different run."
What was corrected
"We stained 100% of the brick in one area."
Storyline
"20 years later this job still looks as good as the day we left it. Our Proven Masonry Stain is the best way to change the color of brick."
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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