Darkening Pale Brick on a Sterling Heights Home

What was wrong

The brick went up with some units far paler than the rest. Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty; a share of the wall simply sat outside the color the rest of it made. The file says it plainly: the very light brick were not supposed to be in the range.

It was hired by the brick manufacturer, not the owner and not the mason. A brick company decided the color of a finished house it had supplied was its own problem, and paid for staining over tear-out.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand, unit by unit. Only the pale brick was touched, darkened until it sat inside the range of the units around it, which is why the finished wall still reads as a blend rather than one flat color. The phrase in the file is we darkened the very light brick.

What sixteen years prove

Same house, same brick, and a range that still holds together at arm's length and from the kerb. 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 house. This is the one for case 096, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.