The brick front of a Bed Bath & Beyond store in 2019, the sign band running across red brick
Case File 016

Staining Tan Piers Into the Red Wall of a Pickerington Store

This store wanted its look updated. In 2001 the tan brick piers across its entrance were stained into the red of the wall behind them. It was photographed again eighteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 016
Structure Retail store
Location Pickerington, Ohio
Stained July 2001
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 18 years, Gold level

2001

  1. The store entrance in 2001, four piers in pale tan and cream brick standing against a wall of dark red brown brick, with a ladder at the left Before, 2001 View this photo larger
  2. Two applicators on ladders at the store entrance in 2001, one pier already carried to a dark red brown beside a second still in its original cream During, 2001 View this photo larger

What was wanted

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The file records the reason as an addition or makeover, and the issue in nine words: they wanted to update the look of the store.

The business itself paid for it, not the brick manufacturer and not the mason.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. The file puts the scope at more than ten percent of the brick, some of it stained more than once. The 2001 frames catch the work halfway across the entrance: one pier already red, the next still in its original cream.

2019, eighteen years on

  1. The same store entrance in 2019, the piers and the wall behind them reading as one red brick After, 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The long side wall of the store seen from across the access road in 2019, maroon awnings running its length and a cinema entrance at the far end 18 Years After View this photo larger
  3. A bay of the same wall close up in 2019, a projecting brick pier between two maroon awnings with a lamp post standing in front of it 2019 View this photo larger
  4. Close view of a brick pier meeting the wall on either side of it in 2019, the units reading in mixed reds and oranges against pale mortar 2019 View this photo larger

What eighteen years prove

Same storefront, photographed again in 2019 and signed off that year. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. The line in the file is short: still looks as great today as it did 18 years ago. As of 2026 the work is twenty-five 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 016, 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 016, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Bed Bath & Beyond (2001)
Level
Gold. 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
Addition or makeover
Issue
"They wanted to update the look of the store."
What was corrected
"Stained +10% of the brick. Some brick more than once."
Storyline
"What a difference staining a few brick made! Still looks as great today as it did 18 years ago! A true testament to a Proven Masonry Stain."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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