The St Clair middle school wall in 2019, red brick running one range with darker units through it and a cream limestone band across the elevation
Case File 225

Staining Every Light Unit on a St Clair Middle School

Areas of light brick on this school did not blend with the range around them. The file records every light unit stained in 2000. It was photographed again nineteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 225
Structure Middle school
Location St Clair, Michigan
Stained August 2000
Re-photographed 2019
Elapsed 19 years, Gold level

2000

  1. A two-storey school elevation in 2000, its red brick carrying paler orange and tan patches through the field, ladders leaning against the wall and bare graded ground in front Before, 2000 View this photo larger
  2. An inside corner of the school shot upward on the same day in 2000, the brick reading as one dark red and brown range to the parapet with cream limestone bands through it After, 2000 View this photo larger

What was wrong

The file records no defect in the brick itself. It records a blend: there were areas of light color brick that did not blend well with the range. The school hired the work, not the mason and not the brick company.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, on one hundred percent of the light brick. Nothing went over the units that were already in range, so the correction sits only where the light brick sat and the wall stays a range rather than a single tone.

2019, nineteen years on

  1. The school corner in 2019, red brick running one range with darker units set through it, cream limestone bands across the elevation and a bare tree at the left edge 19 Years After View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

One red range across the corner, darker units carried through it, and no light patch standing out of it. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. The phrase in the file is 19 years later this job is still holding up great. 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 225, 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 225, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
St. Clair Middle 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
Color change
Issue
"There were areas of light color brick that did not blend well with the range."
What was corrected
"We stained 100% of the light brick."
Storyline
"19 years later this job is still holding up great."
Address
"Permission needed to release address"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2019
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