Lightening Dark Brick in a Washington Michigan Home

What was wrong

Nothing had failed and nothing was dirty. The brick arrived in a range that ran too dark in places, and on a house finished that year it was the first thing anyone saw. The file records the issue in one line: there were a lot of unwanted dark brick in the range.

It was hired by the brick manufacturer, not the owners. 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 and only onto the units that needed it. The correction on the form is six words: we lightened the unwanted dark brick.

What twenty-three years prove

One range of brick, from the gable peak down to the sill courses, with no line where the correction stops. On the certification scale that is Platinum, which covers twenty years and over. The file is candid about how close the house came to losing its brick altogether: the owners "wanted all of the brick torn down and replaced" and "did not want their brand new brick home to be painted". As of 2026 the work is thirty 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 094, transcribed beside the scan so it can be read on a phone and by a search engine.