Lightening Dark Brick and Headers on a Romeoville Home
Dark brick turned up in a wall that was not meant to have any. The company that made the brick paid for the correction and bought half a day on site. It was photographed again twenty-two years later and certified then.
1997
What was wrong
The brick arrived with units darker than the range they were meant to sit in, the headers among them. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The file puts it plainly: there were dark brick that should not be in the range.
It was hired by the brick manufacturer, not the family and not the mason. A brick company decided the color of a finished house it had supplied was its own problem.
What was done
Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. The dark brick and the headers were lightened into the range of the units around them, which is why the wall still reads as several colors rather than one flat tone. Half a day on site.
2019, twenty-two years on
What twenty-two years prove
The file does not claim a perfect match. It says the wall came out a little light. Twenty-two years later it is still light: the color it was mixed to in 1997 is the color the house wears now. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over.
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 052, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.
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- Project name
- Romeoville Residence (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 brick manufacturer
- Reason for project
- Complaint or problem
- Issue
- "There were dark brick that should not be in the range."
- What was corrected
- "We lightened the dark brick and headers."
- Storyline
- "Not only did we lighten the brick, we may have lightened the brick too much. It is always hard to create an exact match, especially when we are only hired to be on site for 1/2 a day. The project turned out a little light, but 22 years later, it's still light!"
- Address
- Withheld on the form: "Permission needed to release address."
- Authorized
- Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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