When a situation arises that only a percentage of the brick need stained, it is hard for the paint like stain companies to do. Many times their product leaves a sheen, which is very noticeable when it rains or the sun is at a certain angle.  This is not natural looking, in our humble opinion.  These same companies must feel the same way, because of the sheen, the stain company would recommend sealing the entire building after the staining is completed, which would be an additional cost. The sealing of the brick levels off the wall so the entire wall now has a sealed look and you do not see the stained areas anymore when it rains. What can be worse is that the sealing over the staining would waves any 25-year warranty that was given.  We’ve always believed that this type of “surgery staining”, where only certain percentages of the brick are stained, is our strong area of expertise. Our product is applied by brush, which allows us to be surgical in a placement kind of way.  We can stain brick that look completely natural.  Our stained brick will get wet just like an unstained brick next to it. We do not ever recommend to seal the brick after we stain it.  No added cost and a wall the looks natural wet or dry.  We simply have a great proven masonry stain.

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We are not saying these other stain companies are bad, but that they are not like us. They use a completely different process than us. We will ask architects not to put us in the same specification with these other stain companies simply because we have different processes.    

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Enough of all that, now to a few stories.  It is fun to look at the large, highly visible commercial projects we have color enhanced over the years.  But what about the small projects from car impacts to garage door fill-ins where the brick are no longer made?  What if the mason found what he could to get the job done, only to find that it was not a good match?  Those projects were important to those homeowners. It greatly affected their property value.  Those projects are just as important to us and the trust they had in us, not only to make a close match but that it would last like we said it would. Let’s look at two of those projects:

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Project one is a residence which had a car drive into the front corner.  The mason was able to find a brick that was close in size and texture that also had a close base color.  After the brick were cleaned and time passed by, Masonry Cosmetics was called in to color enhance the mismatched brick.  For this project, the mortar color was also off, so Masonry Cosmetics stained the mortar first then stained the brick to closely match the original brick on the residence.  The building still looks great and the staining match looks as good as the day it was stained.