From historic brick restoration in Montclair to natural stone patios in Paramus, our masons combine traditional craft with modern engineering. We tuck-point, rebuild, and lay new stonework with proper drainage and frost-depth footings. Serving Garfield and neighborhoods like Belmont, Plauderville, Outwater.
The signature Garfield masonry job is the front stoop. Hundreds of Garfield homes have a 1920s brick or concrete stoop that has settled toward the sidewalk, cracked at the cheek walls, and started shedding steps. Patching those is a two-year fix at best because the footing below frost depth was never there. We excavate, pour a proper footing, and rebuild.
We also do a great deal of foundation re-pointing in Garfield, where the original mortar at grade has washed out from decades of downspout discharge landing next to the wall. That work is always paired with a drainage correction — re-pointing a wall while the same water keeps hitting it just resets the clock.
Garfield's Belmont and Plauderville blocks are dense with 1920s-1940s brick two-families and Outwater has a mix of frame homes on brick foundations parged decades ago. Most original mortar here is lime-based and soft, though plenty of postwar patch jobs used straight Portland cement that's now cracking off in sheets. Nearly every house has a front stoop poured tight to the sidewalk with no real footing, and side-yard retaining walls between narrow lots are common where grades were cut for driveways. We open up more failed parge coats over original brick in Garfield than almost anywhere else we work.
Garfield requires a construction permit for structural repair — footing replacement, retaining walls over a modest height, and any stoop rebuild that changes dimensions or rises past code thresholds for handrails. Simple re-pointing and cosmetic step resurfacing usually don't trigger a permit, but replacing a stoop's footprint does. Sidewalk and curb replacement fronting a public street falls under the borough's public works review, since the city inspects the pour before backfill. We pull permits before scheduling and handle borough scheduling for sidewalk inspections directly.
A straightforward stoop rebuild with a proper footing runs toward the middle of this range; full foundation re-pointing on a two-family, paired with drainage correction, pushes higher. Salvage-matched brick for a 1920s facade costs more than stock brick and adds time. Retaining walls between tight Garfield lots price up fast once excavation has to be done by hand because there's no equipment access from the street.
Price your own Garfield roof with our NJ cost calculatorDemoed a settled concrete stoop that had pulled away from the house nearly two inches at the top step. Excavated below frost depth, poured a new footing and stem wall, rebuilt four steps with brick cheek walls to match the house, and capped with bluestone treads. Included a new drain line to redirect a downspout that had been discharging against the old footing. Four days, roughly $9,600.
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Because the original stoop was poured on grade with no frost-depth footing. Every winter it heaves. Cosmetic patching cannot outlast that. A rebuild on a proper footing does.
Yes, and we always check drainage first. In Garfield the washed-out mortar at grade is nearly always caused by a downspout discharging right against the wall.
Whoever repaired it patched the surface without addressing the footing. Garfield stoops built in the 1920s-40s typically sit on grade with no footing below frost depth, so they heave and settle every winter regardless of how the concrete looks on top. The only lasting fix is excavating and pouring a real footing, which is more work but stops the cycle for good.
It depends on height and whether it's retaining soil next to a structure. Low walls under roughly two to three feet used mainly for landscaping often don't need one, but anything taller, or a wall supporting a driveway or foundation, does require a construction permit with engineering sign-off. We check the specific height and load situation before quoting so there are no surprises mid-job.
Usually yes. We pull samples and source from regional brick yards or reclaimed-brick suppliers to match color, size, and texture, since off-the-shelf modern brick from a home center rarely blends with 1920s-30s Garfield brick. It sometimes means a short delay while we track down a match, which is worth it compared to a patch that reads as new from the sidewalk.