Tuckpointing in the West 21st Street Historic District, Erie, PA
Erie Masonry Repair is a licensed and insured masonry contractor serving the West 21st Street Historic District on Erie's west side. We repoint brick, replace rusted lintels, repair chimneys, and restore stone on the older homes throughout this national historic district.
West 21st Street holds street after street of solid middle and upper-class brick homes, the housing that filled in as the west side grew. These are not the mansions of the bayfront, but they are well-built brick from the same older era, laid in lime mortar that has been taking the weather for generations. The scale is more modest and the brick just as soft.
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. Each is water working on old masonry, and each wants a repair matched to the way the house was built, a lime joint keyed to the original rather than a hard modern fill.
We cover tuckpointing and repointing, lintel replacement, chimney repair, and brick replacement in the West 21st Street district. Call (814) 555-0163 for a free estimate on your home.