Historic Masonry Repair

Bill Guardino offers tuckpointing or repointing and other traditional masonry building services to people who appreciate the importance of restoring older and historic brick and stone buildings correctly. 

We only use materials, techniques and tools that are compatible with the long term health of all traditional building systems. Today’s building philosophy incorporates recent advances in the field of historic preservation, a concern for using sustainable and ecologically sound, non-toxic materials in the repair of our living environment; while maintaining our communities architectural past.

Traditional building restoration, especially masonry restoration, is more time consuming, more exacting and more old world.  Todays masons use modern materials, such as portland cement, to make projects go quickly but at the expense of creating an incompatibility in the building system that will cause years of damage.

Traditional masonry restoration in contrast, attempts to create a virtually seamless repair using traditional materials as close to those used originally in your building. These repairs blend well with the surrounding building, they stand the test of time and will not cause further damage to your building.