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Masonry Repair Calgary

Mortar fails first. Fix it before the brick follows.

We repair brick, block and stone masonry across Calgary: repointing failed mortar joints, replacing spalled brick, resetting loose or fallen stone, repairing stucco and brick chimneys, and heritage repointing like our work on the CIBC building downtown. If something on your house is crumbling, cracking or coming loose, this is the page. Want stone added instead? See stone veneer installation.

Repointing· Brick Replacement· Stone Reset· Heritage
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Diagnosis First

What Fails On Calgary Masonry

Brick is the most durable cladding a building can wear, but only as long as the mortar and the details protecting it hold. In this climate, four things go first.

Mortar joints

Freeze-thaw grinds joints from the surface in. Once mortar goes sandy or recedes, every rain loads the wall with water and every frost pries it apart.

Spalled brick faces

Water trapped behind a hard mortar or a sealed surface pops the fired face right off the brick, and an unfaced brick erodes fast.

Parapets, sills and caps

The horizontal details take the worst weather. Failed caps and sills funnel water into the wall core, and parapets loosen course by course.

Settlement and movement

Stair-step cracks through several courses, a leaning parapet, a bowed section. Movement, not just weathering, and it needs a rebuild on a sound footing rather than more patching.

Scope

What We Repair

The same crew handles surgical repairs and structural rebuilds, so the fix matches the problem instead of the salesman.

Heritage brick repointing in progress on the CIBC building in downtown Calgary

Repointing

Joints raked to sound depth, mortar matched to the original in colour and strength, tooled to the existing profile so the repair disappears. Elevation by elevation on homes, storefronts and multi-family buildings.

Stone garden wall in Calgary after missing stones were reset and the joints repointed

Block and retaining walls

Concrete block, garden and retaining walls repointed, cracked units replaced, leaning sections rebuilt on a sound footing and capped or parged so water sheds instead of soaking in.

Stone veneer column beside a Calgary front entry after loose pieces were reset

Stone repair and resetting

Loose or fallen stone reset in matched mortar, failed veneer stripped back to the lath and re-set so it stays put. New stone is on the stone veneer page.

Rebuilt brick chimney on a Calgary home with a new metal cap

Chimney repair

Stucco chases rebuilt and re-capped, brick chimneys repointed above the roofline or rebuilt from the top courses down, new metal caps and flashing. Details on the chimney repair page.

Repaired block chimney on a Calgary roof with a new metal cap and flashing tied into the shingles

Parapets, sills and caps

The horizontal details that take the worst weather. Parapets rebuilt course by course, sills reset, failed caps replaced and flashed so water sheds off the wall instead of into it.

Brick parapet wall in Calgary mid-rebuild, joints raked and units being replaced

Brick replacement and rebuilds

Spalled, cracked or soft bricks cut out one at a time and replaced with matched units. Parapets, columns, sills and wall sections rebuilt plumb with proper flashing details.

The Rule That Matters

Repointing Done The Right Way

Good repointing is quiet work: joints raked to sound depth, dust flushed, mortar matched to the original in colour and, critically, in strength, then tooled to the existing profile so the repair disappears into the wall.

That strength-matching rule is where cheap repointing destroys buildings. Modern hard mortar against soft older brick makes the brick the sacrificial layer. We match the mortar to the masonry, which is exactly the method heritage work demands, and it is the standard we apply to every house, not just the landmark jobs.

Heritage restoration: mortar matched to the original, joints raked by hand, profiles matched. The CIBC building downtown is current work.

Recent Work

Before And After

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Stone garden wall in Calgary after repair, stones reset and joints repointed The same Calgary stone wall before repair, stones missing and joints failed

Stone Wall Repair

Missing stones reset in matched mortar, joints repointed to match. Calgary, AB.

Calgary garage refinished in dark brick-format stone veneer Calgary garage with failing stone veneer before repair

Garage Veneer Redo

Failing veneer stripped to the substrate, re-lathed and re-set. Calgary, AB.

How It Runs

How We Repair Masonry

  1. 01

    Assess

    We tap the wall, probe the joints, check caps, sills and flashing, and look for the water path. Movement cracks and weathering cracks get different fixes.

  2. 02

    Rake and cut out

    Failed mortar is raked to sound depth. Spalled brick and loose stone are cut out without disturbing their neighbours.

  3. 03

    Match

    Mortar is matched to the original in colour and strength. Replacement brick and stone are matched by size, colour and texture, not just close enough.

  4. 04

    Repoint and rebuild

    Joints are packed in lifts and tooled to the existing profile. Rebuilt sections go up plumb and level with proper ties.

  5. 05

    Flash and cap

    Sills, caps and flashing are sealed so the water that caused the failure has somewhere else to go. Then we clean the wall and walk it with you.

Masonry season in Calgary runs April to October for mortar to cure. Emergency repairs to a leaning parapet or a chimney shedding brick get done when they are needed and finished properly in spring.

MASONRY REPAIR FAQ

What Calgary homeowners ask first.

Repointing is cutting out failed mortar joints and refilling them with fresh mortar. When joints have receded, cracked, or gone sandy to the touch, water gets behind the brick, and in Calgary's freeze-thaw climate that's what spalls brick faces and loosens walls. If you can rake a joint out with a key, it's time.

We match both colour and strength. Strength matters more than people think: mortar harder than the surrounding brick causes the brick itself to sacrifice instead of the joint, which is how repointing done cheap destroys heritage masonry. Softer, compatible mortar protects the brick.

Both, depending on depth. Surface spalling on a face can sometimes be dressed and protected; bricks that have lost their fired face keep deteriorating and get cut out and replaced with matched units.

When movement, not just weathering, is in play: leaning parapets, stair-step cracking through multiple courses, bowed sections. We rebuild parapets, columns and wall sections on proper footings of sound masonry rather than chasing cracks forever.

Spalling is the face of a brick or stone flaking or popping off. Water gets into the unit, freezes, expands and shears the fired face away. Once the face is gone the softer core weathers fast. A few spalled units get cut out and replaced; a whole wall spalling usually means a hard mortar or a sealed surface is trapping water, and that gets fixed first.

Yes. Loose or fallen stone is reset in matched mortar after we find out why it let go, which is usually water behind the veneer or stone set straight on drywall or plywood with no lath. Where a section has failed we strip it to the substrate, re-lath, scratch coat and re-set the stone so it stays put.

Yes. Concrete block foundations, garden walls and retaining walls: joints repointed, cracked units replaced, leaning sections taken down and rebuilt on a sound footing, then capped so water sheds instead of soaking in. Parged block walls are finished on our parging side.

Mortar needs to cure above 5°C for a couple of days, so most repointing and rebuilding runs April through October. In a mild stretch we work later with cold-weather mortar and tenting. Emergency repairs to a leaning parapet or a chimney shedding brick get done whenever they are needed and finished properly in spring.

Every repair carries our 5-year written workmanship warranty. Repointing done with matched mortar over sound brick should last 25 to 50 years in Calgary; the warranty covers our work, and we put it in writing with the quote.

Yes, both stucco chimney chases and brick chimneys. New metal caps and flashing, repointing above the roofline, spalled brick and top-course rebuilds, and stucco chases stripped and rebuilt, all on our chimney repair page.

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