The St Clair high school wall in 2019, light cream brick with darker units scattered through the range
Case File 224

Adding Darks to the Range on a St Clair High School

The customer wanted more dark colors in the brick range on this school addition. The file records fifteen percent of the units stained dark in 2000. It was photographed again nineteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 224
Structure High school addition
Location St Clair, Michigan
Stained October 2000
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 19 years, Gold level

2000

  1. The corner of a new school wing in 2000, its brick an even light tan and cream, with oriented strand board sheathing still exposed above it and bare graded sand in front Before, 2000 View this photo larger
  2. The same new wing later the same day, darker units now set through the light brick across the low wall, a ladder leaning at the far end After, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wanted

The file records no defect. It records a preference: the customer wanted a few more dark colors added to the range. It was hired by the school itself, not by the mason and not by the brick company.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, on fifteen percent of the units. Not a color over the wall: a few darks set into a range that was already there, so the elevation still reads as one blend. The phrase in the file is we could have done so much more but just adding the few extra darks helped a lot.

2019, nineteen years on

  1. A long school elevation in 2019, light cream brick carrying scattered tan and brown units through it, punched windows down the wall and snow on the ground 19 Years After View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

Light brick with darker units carried through it, which is the range the file describes. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-six 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 224, 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 224, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
St. Clair High School (2000)
Level
Gold. 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 school or university
Reason for project
Addition or makeover
Issue
"The customer wanted a few more dark colors added to the range."
What was corrected
"We added a few more darks to the range."
Storyline
"The customer hired us to add 15% darks only, we could have done so much more but just adding the few extra darks helped a lot."
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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