Brick repair in Midland TX - the right fix for worn joints and damaged brick

Most calls start with something you can see from the yard, like sand piling up under a wall, a crack stepping through the joints or a brick face flaking off. The price comes down mostly to how much of the wall needs work and whether any bricks have to come out, and the schedule turns on the size of the job, the weather for the new mortar and a permit if your job needs one. I come out, look at the wall with you and put your number in a written estimate with what's included spelled out.

I start by looking at whether the damage stops at the mortar or goes into the brick itself, because that decides everything after it. If new joints will fix it, I'll say so, and if some bricks need replacing, I'll point out which ones. For repointing, we take the worn mortar out of the joints and lay in new mortar that's weaker than your brick, because mortar harder than the brick makes the brick faces break off. Mortar is supposed to be the part that gives, and when somebody patches with the hard stuff, the brick gives instead. Preservation guidance also warns that power saws on thin brick joints almost always chip the edges, so it's fair to ask any crew what they'll use to get the old mortar out. When the joints are filled, we clean the wall and the ground around it before we leave.

Brick repair often sits next to other work around the house. If the cracked brick is part of a garden wall holding back a slope, it may be time for proper retaining wall construction instead of patching it again, and if you're fixing up the front of the house anyway, driveway pavers can give the approach a surface that sits well beside the brick.

Midland's Development Services Department issues building permits, and the city lists repairs among the residential work that needs one. If your brick job calls for a permit, we handle the paperwork and wait for it before we start, and you can check the application's status with the city. Commercial buildings are stricter, because all work on them needs a commercial permit and only a licensed and bonded contractor registered with the city can get one, so landlords and shop owners should ask about that before they hire anyone.

Around Midland we see a lot of brick homes where the joints have worn thin, plus rentals and storefronts where an owner wants a small crack fixed before it turns into a bigger job. We're based in Midland and do the same work on jobs in Odessa and Big Spring, as well as West Odessa and other cities around Midland.