Masonry In Akron, Ohio

Your Akron Masonry Contractor

Akron's housing was largely built during the rubber boom, which means whole neighborhoods went up at once and are now aging at once. The homes around Highland Square, Firestone Park and the West Hill area sit on cut sandstone foundations, carry brick chimneys that have never been relined, and have retaining walls along the sidewalks that were poured before anybody was thinking about drainage. Stan Hywet is the showpiece, but the everyday masonry across this city is where the actual work is.

Cougar Masonry brings the full trade to Akron: new brick, block, and natural or cultured stone, chimney rebuilds and repair, retaining walls and patios, tuckpointing and restoration, block foundations and building erections, and basements and new additions. One crew handles your project start to finish, with a free written estimate up front and a final walkthrough at the end.

Sandstone foundations are the defining Akron masonry issue. They were laid in lime mortar, they are enormously strong in compression, and they fail at the joints when water runs against them for decades. Patching them with modern portland mortar traps moisture in the stone and accelerates the damage. The correct repair is repointing in a compatible mix and correcting the drainage that caused it. Add the boom era chimneys and the aging street level retaining walls, and Akron keeps a mason busy.