Tuckpointing and Masonry Repair in Olyphant, PA
Scranton Masonry Repair serves Olyphant, Pennsylvania, northeast of the city on the Lackawanna River. We are a licensed and insured masonry contractor, and we tuckpoint brick, repair chimneys, replace lintels, and restore older masonry across the borough.
Olyphant grew up around the mines and the railroad, and the housing came with them. The older streets hold coal-era brick homes set in lime mortar, raised before the modern portland era on foundations of local rubble stone. That brick is soft, and the repair has to respect it.
The problems here are the ones that come with age. Joints wear open and let water in. Steel lintels over the windows rust and lift the brick above them in a stair-step crack. Chimneys spall at the top from a cracked crown. Each is water working on old masonry, and each wants a repair matched to the way the house was built, soft lime for the soft brick, not a hard joint that fights it.
We cover tuckpointing and repointing, lintel replacement, chimney repair, and brick replacement in Olyphant. Every job starts with a free on-site estimate written down before work begins.
Call (570) 555-0148 for a free estimate in Olyphant. We schedule the river boroughs regularly and will come look at your brick or stone.