Services
Eight masonry services for St. Peters homes, grouped by the kind of work you need: fixing what’s there, or building something new.
Replace crumbling, recessed mortar joints with mortar matched to your brick.
Fix cracked, spalling, and loose brick, block, and stone, and the cause behind it.
A coordinated plan for aging and historic brick and stone, done with compatible materials.
Crowns, repointing, rebuilds, and fireplace masonry, stopping leaks at the source.
New garden, privacy, and screen walls, columns, mailboxes, and planters.
New retaining walls and repair of leaning ones, with the drainage slopes demand.
Natural and manufactured stone walls, steps, pillars, and veneer, new and repair.
Fix bowing, cracked, or leaking brick siding; install new veneer and thin brick.
Most masonry work falls into one of three kinds of project. Knowing which one you’re dealing with makes estimates easier to compare.
Repair fixes a specific problem on existing masonry: failing mortar joints, cracked or spalled brick, a loose step, a leaking chimney. The work is targeted, and the cause of the damage is dealt with at the same time.
Start with tuckpointing for mortar, masonry and brick repair for damaged units, or chimney repair.
Restoration is for older masonry with several problems at once. It’s planned as a whole: assessment, gentle cleaning, compatible repointing, selective replacement, and correcting poor earlier repairs, in the right order.
See masonry restoration, or read repair vs. restoration if you’re not sure.
New construction means building something that isn’t there yet: garden and privacy walls, columns, mailboxes, retaining walls, stone features, or new brick veneer. Footings, drainage, and reinforcement decide how long it lasts.
See brick and block walls, retaining walls, stone masonry, and brick veneer.
Brick covers most of the masonry on local homes, as solid brick walls on older buildings and as brick veneer on newer ones. Brick work includes repointing, replacing damaged brick, chimneys, veneer repair, and new brick walls and columns. The mortar has to suit the brick, especially on older, softer brick.
Concrete block is the structural workhorse: strong, economical, and reinforced with steel and grout where needed. It’s used for privacy and screen walls, for reinforced retaining walls, and as the core of walls finished with a brick or stone face. See brick and block walls.
Natural and manufactured stone is used for walls, steps, pillars, and facades. Natural stone is heavy and durable; manufactured stone veneer is lighter and depends heavily on how it’s installed and drained. See stone masonry.
Match what you’re seeing to the service that addresses it.
Joints wearing away between bricks or stones.
Damage to the brick itself rather than the joints.
Soft historic brick, old patches, staining, and failing joints all at once.
Cracked crowns, missing joints, damaged firebox brick.
Freestanding brick or block construction.
Holding back soil, or a wall that’s tilting.
Natural or manufactured stone, new or repair.
Brick siding on a framed wall.
Related guide
If your home has several masonry problems at once, this guide helps you decide which kind of project you need.
Yes. Most homes have more than one thing going on, such as open joints plus a cracked crown. We look at everything on the visit and put it in one written estimate.
Describe what you're seeing, or send photos, and we'll tell you. The symptom list above is a good starting point.
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