The corner of the Romulus building in 2021, buff brick running one range across both elevations under a shingled hip roof
Case File 381

Staining Spray Wand Damage on a Romulus Building

Spray wand damage, in the file's words: a cleaning wand had marked the brick on this single-story building. The mason or contractor hired the correction in 1999. The corner was photographed again in 2021 and certified Platinum.

Case No. 381
Structure Single-story commercial building
Location Romulus, Michigan
Stained 1999
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 22 years, Platinum level

1999

  1. A side elevation of the building in September 1999, buff brick between two dark framed windows under a shingled roof, with darker marks on the wall below the second window and a bare soil bed at the base Before, 1999 View this photo larger
  2. A close-up of the brick in September 1999, the faces streaked and blotched pale and dark with grey mortar joints between them Before, 1999 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Spray wand damage. The file gives the issue in three words and the close-up carries it: streaks and blotches across the faces of the brick, pale where the surface had been scoured and darker where it had not. Both 1999 frames carry a camera date of September 4, 1999. The mason or contractor hired the fix, not the owner.

What was done

The file records one step: the affected areas were stained. Mineral stain, worked into the marked brick to bring it back beside the units around it. How that works is on the services page.

2021, twenty-two years on

  1. The corner of the building in 2021 with snow on the ground and the shrubs, buff brick reading one range across both elevations under a shingled hip roof, with the certification stamp in the corner After, 2021 View this photo larger

What twenty-two years prove

The 2021 frame is the corner of the building in snow, with the certification stamp on it. One range of buff brick across both elevations. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which starts at twenty years. The file's storyline is one line: it still looks great over 20 years later.

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 381, 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 381, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Romulus MI (1999)
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
"Spray wand damage."
What was corrected
"We stained the affected areas."
Storyline
"It still looks great over 20 years later!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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