Tuckpointing and Masonry Repair in Carbondale, PA
Scranton Masonry Repair works throughout Carbondale, Pennsylvania, at the north end of Lackawanna County in the upper valley. We are a licensed and insured masonry contractor doing tuckpointing, historic brick repair, stone restoration, and chimney work across the city.
Carbondale is one of the oldest anthracite cities in the region, and it kept the brick core to prove it. Downtown and the older residential streets go back to the coal boom, well before the modern portland era, so the brick is soft and the original mortar is lime. This is some of the oldest masonry we work on anywhere in the county.
On a wall this old the mortar is the whole repair. We point in a lime mix keyed to the original, matched for sand and color, so the work moves with the brick and reads as part of the wall. A hard portland joint forced into old Carbondale brick would crack the faces the first hard winter, which is the opposite of a repair. Being the farthest of our regular towns changes the drive, not the method.
Our Carbondale work centers on repointing, stone and masonry restoration, and matched brick replacement, along with chimney rebuilding. Every project starts with a free written estimate.
Call (570) 555-0148 for a free estimate in Carbondale. Historic brick and stone is our regular work, and we point old walls in the mortar they were built with.