The side wall of the store addition in 2020, red brown brick running past a grey steel double door under a cream fascia
Case File 344

Matching a New Store Addition to Discontinued Brick

The brick on the original store was discontinued by the time the addition was built, and the closest match ran a lighter orange. All of it was stained toward the original wall in 2007. Photographed again and certified thirteen years later.

Case No. 344
Structure Store addition
Location Not recorded in the file
Stained 2007
Re-photographed 2020
Elapsed 13 years, Silver level

2007

  1. The joint between the addition and the original store in 2007, lighter orange brick under a cream fascia on the left meeting darker red brown brick with a soldier course on the right Before, 2007 View this photo larger
  2. The same corner in 2007 after staining, the addition wall and the original wall with its soldier course reading as one red brown range, a pickup parked against the wall After, 2007 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The original store was laid in a brick called Hudson's, discontinued by the time the addition went up. The addition was built in a Milwaukee, the same size and texture in a lighter orange range. The file puts it plainly: as close of a match as they could, but it wasn't close enough. The business that owns the store hired the correction.

What was done

Size and texture already matched, so only the color was off. All the light brick on the addition was stained to sit closer to the original building. The joint between old and new is still there; the color no longer marks it.

2020, thirteen years on

  1. The side wall of the addition in winter 2020, red brown brick with a grey steel double door and snow along the base, the original building's wall continuing beyond it, with the certification stamp in the corner After, 2020 View this photo larger

What thirteen years prove

Same wall, one range across the old brick and the new. On the certification scale that is Silver, which covers ten years and over. As of 2026 the work is nineteen years old, and the 2020 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 344, 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 344, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Store Addition (2007)
Level
Silver. 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
A business or corporation
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Issue
"The brick on the original building was discontinued. For the new addition they found as close of a match as they could, but it wasn't close enough."
What was corrected
"We stained all the light brick to more closely match the original building."
Storyline
"While the brick (called Hudson's) on the original building was discontinued, the brick plant that produced it was still operating. For the addition they used another brick similar in size and texture called a Milwuakee, which is a lighter orange range of brick. Luckily, that meant only the color was off, which was easily corrected by Masonry Cosmetics."
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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