Masonry contractors in Fishtown, PA

River-ward Philadelphia rowhomes, much of it built between the 1870s and the 1920s in soft red brick laid in lime mortar. Two and three stories, party walls throughout, and a heavy overlay of recent renovation work of very mixed quality.

Repointing soft historic brick in a lime mix, spalled faces where someone pointed in cement, party-wall and rear-wall pointing, and chimney stacks on flat roofs.

• Brick repointing→

  Repointing is raking the failed mortar out of the joints between bricks and replacing it with fresh mortar.

• Brick repair→

  Brick repair is cutting out brick that has broken, spalled, gone missing or moved, and rebuilding that section.

• Chimney masonry→

  Chimney masonry covers repointing, rebuilding, crowns, caps and the flashing where the chimney meets the roof.

• Lintel replacement→

  A lintel is the beam over a window or door that carries the brick above it, and replacing one means supporting that brick while the beam comes out.

A project goes to at most three contractors, chosen on the services they registered, the ZIP codes they work and the size of job they take. Verified Pros go first. Each one can accept or decline, and only the ones who accept see your name, phone number and street address.

Verified Pro means we checked the contractor’s Pennsylvania home improvement contractor registration against the Attorney General’s public registry at hicsearch.attorneygeneral.gov and hold their certificate of insurance on file. A contractor who has not passed both receives no projects.

Mortarook is new. We do not publish a count of contractors, because a number that is not worth publishing yet is not worth inventing. If fewer than three verified masons cover Fishtown for your service, the site says so with a date rather than leaving you refreshing a page.

Nothing, at any point. Mortarook takes no homeowner payment, no deposit and no escrow. Your contract and your payments are between you and the mason you choose, exactly as they are today.