22 Frederick St redevelopment | Completed

[tomh009]

Yeah, something about this process definitely seems to have been done incorrectly. When I went back to look at some of the earlier pictures to figure out the timing it was obvious that the brick was old and crumbling. I wonder if they didn't treat it properly before applying paint and if that's the case we might be seeing the brick continuing to decay, taking the paint with it.

I've never heard of any treatment that would stop brick from deteriorating, after the deterioration has already begun.  I have seen cases where paint simply will not adhere to damaged brick.

Or the bricks were not correctly prepared, and continued to crumble.

I think this is the most likely scenario.