Masonry In Ashland, Ohio

Your Ashland Masonry Contractor

Ashland is a university town with the housing stock to match, a downtown of brick commercial buildings along Main and Center, and neighborhoods of century homes near Ashland University that have been carefully kept up. Between the college, the churches and BalloonFest drawing crowds every summer, this is a town where the buildings get looked at. The newer development on the edges is a different job entirely, mostly veneer, patios and retaining walls on lots that were graded fast.

Cougar Masonry brings the full trade to Ashland: 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.

The older neighborhoods around the university are full of solid brick homes built when Ashland was growing quickly, and most of the original masonry is still serviceable. What has failed is the mortar and the chimneys. Sixty or a hundred years of freeze and thaw opens joints on the weather side first, usually west and north, and once water is in the wall the damage accelerates every winter. Catching it at the pointing stage instead of the rebuild stage is a difference of thousands of dollars.