The Youngstown house in 2021, red brick running from the gable end across to the wing beside it
Case File 410

Bringing Color Back to Power Washed Brick in Youngstown

A power washer had taken the color out of areas of the brick on this house. The mason who laid the wall hired the correction, not the owner. It was photographed again nineteen years later and certified then.

Case No. 410
Structure Single family house
Location Youngstown, Ohio
Stained July 2002
Re-photographed February 2021
Elapsed 19 years, Gold level

2002

  1. The gable end of the house in 2002, pale washed out patches spreading across the brick around an arched window and a round louver vent Before, 2002 View this photo larger
  2. The long side wall of the house in 2002 seen over a deck rail, pale streaks running through the red brick below the eaves Before, 2002 View this photo larger

What was wrong

Powerwash damage. Pressure had pulled color out of the face of the brick in patches, so the wall read as blotchy rather than as one range. Nothing had failed.

What was done

Mineral stain, worked into the areas that had been stripped. The file records it as a color enhancement of the damaged areas rather than a treatment of the whole elevation.

2021, nineteen years on

  1. The gable end and the wing beside it in 2021 under snow, red brick reading as one range past the arched windows, with the certification stamp in the corner After, 2021 View this photo larger
  2. The garage court in 2021, red brick piers standing between the doors and around a service door, snow banked on the concrete After, 2021 View this photo larger
  3. The gable end seen from the driveway in 2021, red brick carrying past the garage bays to the corner under a flag on a bracket After, 2021 View this photo larger
  4. The same gable end straight on in 2021, red brick running evenly from the arched window up to the round louver vent 19 Years After View this photo larger

What nineteen years prove

The gable with the round louver vent is in both sets, nineteen years apart, and in 2021 the face reads as one range. On the certification scale that is Gold, which covers fifteen years and over. As of 2026 the work is twenty-four years old, and the 2021 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 410, 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 410, filled in and signed View the signed form full size
Project name
Youngstown OH (2002)
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 mason or contractor
Reason for project
Complaint or problem
Issue
"Powerwash damage."
What was corrected
"We color enhanced the damaged areas."
Storyline
"19 years later this job still looks great!"
Authorized
Donald A. Foster, signed, dated 2021
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