Masonry Contractor in Westchester Square, Bronx

What Masonry Repairs Are Needed Around Westchester Square?

Masonry repairs here follow age and weather. Attached and detached houses have brick walls, stoops and chimneys, and shop buildings have storefront piers and parapets. The usual problems are leaning walls, spalled brick, cracked piers and retaining walls that have started to move.

The area has several building types close together, so one crew often sees a stoop, a garden wall and a shop parapet on the same street.

• Brick faces that flake after freezes
• Garden walls leaning toward the sidewalk
• Cracked stoop cheek walls
• Parapets with loose coping
• Retaining walls bowing along side driveways
• Storefront piers with failed joints

Some of the lots on side streets slope toward the road, and homeowners hold the soil back with a low wall. Without drainage behind it, that wall takes constant pressure.

Not every job is a rebuild. We often do targeted repairs, such as resetting a pier cap or replacing a few bricks, and we tell you when that is enough.

Chimneys are another common call. Crowns crack, bricks near the top loosen and flashing at the roof line lets water into the stack. We check what can be reached safely and tell you when a roofer or a taller setup is needed.

Storefront piers carry weight, so we shore up above them before taking anything apart. That keeps the work safe and the building steady while the repair goes ahead.