Lightening Dark Brick to the Range on a Shiloh Home

What was wrong

Two runs of brick went into one house. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty; the units did not agree with each other. The file puts it in ten words: two different runs of brick were installed into the home.

The brick manufacturer hired it, not the owner and not the mason. The company that supplied the brick treated the mismatch as its own to fix, and paid for staining rather than tear-out.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed into the brick by hand, unit by unit. The dark run was brought down into the range of the lighter one rather than one color going over both, so the finished wall still reads as fired brick. The phrase in the file is stained the off-colored brick for a better match.

What sixteen years prove

The same corner, and a wall that still reads as one range. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-three 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 236, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.