The brick arcade at the back of the Powell house in 2019, arch heads and column corners in the same range as the brick around them
Case File 313

Matching the Shaped Brick on Powell Home Columns

The special shapes on this home went up a different color from the brick around them. The company that made the brick paid to have every shape stained to match. It was photographed again seven years later and certified then.

Case No. 313
Structure Home with brick arcade
Location Powell, Ohio
Stained 2012
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 7 years, Bronze level

2012

  1. The back of the house under construction, its brick arches and column corners reading paler than the field brick around them Before View this photo larger
  2. The brick piers and arches close up, the tapered shapes over each opening a lighter, pinker color than the brick they sit in During View this photo larger

What was wrong

The field brick was fine. The shapes were not. Special shapes, the units that turn a pier corner and spring an arch, are molded separately from the brick they sit beside, and on this house they came out a different color. The file puts the complaint in nine words: the corner shapes on the columns did not match.

It was hired by the brick manufacturer. Not the builder, and not the family whose house it was.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the shapes by hand while the house was still a building site. The file records the scope in six words: we stained 100% of the shapes. The field brick was left alone.

2019, seven years on

  1. The covered terrace and its brick arcade in 2019, the arch heads and pier corners in the same range as the brick around them 2019 View this photo larger
  2. The terrace seen past the pergola posts in 2019, the piers and both arches reading as one warm cream and salmon range 2019 View this photo larger
  3. One of the arches close up in 2019, the tapered shapes over the opening sitting in the same color as the brick on either side 7 Years After View this photo larger
  4. Close view of the stained brick in 2019 under the certification stamp, the units an even cream and salmon range 2019 View this photo larger

What seven years prove

Same piers, same arches, and the shapes still sit in the range of the brick around them. On the certification scale that is Bronze, which covers seven to nine years. As of 2026 the work is fourteen 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 313, 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 313, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Powell, OH Residence (2012)
Level
Bronze. 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 manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"The corner shapes on the columns did not match."
What was corrected
"We stained 100% of the shapes."
Storyline
"The sand molded shapes did not match. We have stained a lot of off-colored shapes over the years and the homeowners were not disappointed with the work we did on their home."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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