Tuckpointing and Masonry Repair in Pittston, PA
Scranton Masonry Repair works throughout Pittston, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River between Scranton and Wilkes-Barre. We are a licensed and insured masonry contractor doing tuckpointing, brick repair, chimney work, and stone restoration across the city. Pittston sits in Luzerne County, and we serve it as part of our greater Scranton-area coverage.
Pittston is an old anthracite city, and its downtown and older neighborhoods carry the brick to match. Those blocks were raised in the coal years, before modern portland mortar, so the brick is soft and the joints are lime. It is the same story as the mining towns up the valley, only worked by the river instead of the ridge.
So the split here is age. The old core near Main Street needs a color-matched lime mortar and a careful hand. The newer homes on the edges of the city take a standard Type N or S mix. We read which one a wall is before we mix anything, because a hard mortar on soft old Pittston brick does more harm than the open joint it was meant to close.
Our Pittston 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 Pittston. Old river-town brick is our regular work, and we know what these walls were built with.