Many structures use a plaster over the brickwork to give a uniform and smooth look. But that hasn’t taken away from the sheer beauty of brick structures in walls and pillars, where the bricks are visible to the naked eye. The red (with white borders or joints) brickwork has a charm all of its own. But when buildings with exposed brickwork become quite old, the joints in these brick surfaces have to be repaired and refurbished. This masonry restoration New York is usually called brickpointing, and there is another name tuckpointing, with which it is often confused. Continue reading “Some Aspects of Brickpointing” →

Construction is not only about erecting new buildings from scratch. Sometimes existing buildings need to be refurbished or repaired, or when the buildings are in an even worse state of repair, they might need to be restored. The work involved in these activities is quite specialized and it requires the services of specialized masonry contractors in NYC.

The lines above might seem to indicate that a building needs to be paid attention to and restored or repaired only when it has become very run down and in poor shape. But that might not be the case always. Often buildings need to be refurbished when there are functional changes in the way the building is being used. Continue reading “Best Contractor For Masonry Repair and Restoration” →