The brick garage wall of the house in 2021, one even red brown range from the picture window to the garage door, with a bare tree in front
Case File 387

Staining Power Wash Damage Instead of Replacing the Brick

The homeowners were disgusted with the power washing damage on the brick of their new house and wanted it torn down and replaced. The mason who built it had the damaged areas stained instead, in April 1997. Photographed again in 2021, twenty-four years on, and certified Platinum.

Case No. 387
Structure House
Location Not recorded
Stained April 1997
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 24 years, Platinum level

1997

  1. The porch corner of the new house in 1997, red brick under a heavy white haze across the whole wall beside a dark window, a downspout at the right Before, 1997 View this photo larger
  2. The same porch corner in April 1997 after staining, the brick reading one even red brown range from the window to the downspout, bare graded soil in front and a gable roof above After, 1997 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file puts it plainly: the homeowners were disgusted with the damage and wanted the brick torn down and replaced. The 1997 before frame shows why. A white haze sits across the whole porch wall, unit and joint alike, on a house that was new.

What was done

Mineral stain. The form records it in one line: the damaged areas were systematically stained. The file calls the result a long lasting solution at a fraction of what replacing the brick would have cost. How stain works on a house is on the residential page.

2021, twenty-four years on

  1. The garage gable of the brick house in 2021 under a clear sky, a bare tree in front of the picture window and a stucco dormer above the roofline After, 2021 View this photo larger

What twenty-four years prove

The 2021 frame is the same house with the tree grown in, the brick one range from the picture window to the garage. Twenty years and over is Platinum on the certification scale. The file's own line: still looks great 24 years later. As of 2026 the work is twenty-nine years old.

The signed file

This is the signed form for case 387, transcribed beside the scan so a phone and a search engine can read it.

Scan of the case study form for case 387, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Powerwash Damage (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
The mason or contractor
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"The homeowners were disgusted with the damage and wanted the brick torn down and replaced."
What was corrected
"We systematically stained the damaged areas for a much better looking building."
Storyline
"Originally the homeowners wanted the brick on their house replaced entirely because the power washing damage was so bad. However we were able to provide them a long lasting aesthetic solution at a fraction of what it would have cost to replace the brick. Still looks great 24 years later!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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