Masonry contractors in Manayunk, PA

Steep hillside blocks of mill-era rowhomes and stone houses, mostly 1860s to 1910s, with a lot of local schist in walls, foundations and the retaining walls that hold the streets up.

Stone pointing on schist walls and retaining walls, foundation and cellar-wall repointing on the downhill side, and brick repointing on the later rows.

• Stone pointing→

  Stone pointing is raking out and replacing the mortar joints in a stone wall.

• Foundation masonry→

  Foundation masonry is repointing, parging and repairing the wall at and below ground level.

• Brick repointing→

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

• Stone repair→

  Stone repair is resetting or replacing stone that has come loose, fallen out, or moved.

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 We do not publish a count of contractors, because a number that is not worth publishing yet is not worth inventing.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 Manayunk 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.