The inside corner of the Warren building in 2021, red brick either side of a dark downspout between two cast stone arches
Case File 379

Staining Inside and Outside Corner Shapes in Warren

The shaped brick at the corners of this Warren building did not match the wall around it. The brick manufacturer paid to have both the inside and outside corners stained to match in 1999. Photographed again in 2021 and certified Platinum.

Case No. 379
Structure Not recorded in the file
Location Warren, Ohio
Stained 1999
Re-photographed 2021
Elapsed 22 years, Platinum level

1999

  1. The inside corner of the wall in 1999, the shaped corner units reading grey and brown against the red field brick, with a cast stone arch at the lower right Before, 1999 View this photo larger
  2. The outside corner pier in 1999 between two arched windows in cast stone surrounds, the brick at the corner reading in the same red as the wall, with new window labels still on the glass After, 1999 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Shapes are the brick units made to turn a corner rather than run straight, and here they did not match the field brick. The Before frame shows it: at the inside corner the units read grey against the red of the wall. The file puts it in five words, the shapes did not match. The brick manufacturer hired the correction.

What was done

Mineral stain, brushed on by hand. The file records both internal and external corners stained, and nothing else. The field brick was left alone and the shapes were brought to it.

2021, twenty-two years on

  1. The inside corner in 2021 at a dark downspout between two arched windows, red brick running one range around the turn, with the certification stamp in the lower right corner After, 2021 View this photo larger

What twenty-two years prove

The inside corner in 2021 reads as one wall through the downspout and around the turn, with the cast stone arches either side of it untouched. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which starts at twenty years. The form was signed in 2020 and the revisit frame is labelled 2021; both clear the threshold.

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 379, 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 379, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Warren OH Shapes (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 brick manufacturer
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"The shapes did not match."
What was corrected
"We stained both interal and external corners."
Storyline
"The shapes stained over 20 years ago still look great today!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2020
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