Tuckpointing and Masonry Repair in Old Forge, PA
Scranton Masonry Repair works throughout Old Forge, Pennsylvania, southwest of the city along the Lackawanna River. We are a licensed and insured masonry contractor doing tuckpointing, brick repair, chimney work, and stone restoration across the borough.
Old Forge grew as a coal town, and it kept the dense old core that mining boroughs tend to hold. The houses sit close, most of them raised before 1940 on rubble-stone foundations, in soft brick laid up in lime mortar. That brick will not take a hard modern joint, and pointing it in portland cracks the faces the wall was built to protect.
On stock this old the mortar match is the job. We point in a lime mix keyed to the original, matched for sand and color, so the repair moves with the soft brick instead of splitting it. The washed-out joints on a rubble-stone foundation get the same lime treatment, because a hard mortar in a soft stone wall does more harm than the open joint did.
Our Old Forge work runs from repointing and brick replacement to stone restoration and chimney rebuilding. Every job starts with a free written estimate.
Call (570) 555-0148 for a free estimate in Old Forge. Old mining-town brick and stone is our regular work, and we know what these walls were built with.