Tuckpointing in Little Italy, Erie, PA
Erie Masonry Repair is a licensed and insured masonry contractor working in Little Italy, the old Italian neighborhood on Erie's near west side. We tuckpoint brick, rebuild steps, replace rusted lintels, and repair chimneys on the close-set brick homes that fill these blocks.
Little Italy grew up around the Italian families who settled the west side, and it built in brick, tight rows of houses and duplexes on narrow lots. The homes sit shoulder to shoulder with their stoops on the sidewalk, and much of the brick is old and soft, laid in lime mortar back when the neighborhood was young. It is dense, hard-working masonry.
The repairs here are the everyday ones of an old close-packed neighborhood. Front stoops loosen and rock after years of snow and salt at the sidewalk. Joints open on the weather side and let water in. Lintels over the windows rust and crack the brick above. We point in a lime mortar matched to the old brick, rebuild the stoops on a sound base, and set new galvanized lintels where the steel has gone.
We handle tuckpointing and repointing, step and stoop repair, lintel replacement, and chimney repair in Little Italy. Call (814) 555-0163 for a free estimate on your brick.