Masonry contractor in Milledgeville, GA - careful work on older brick and stone

A lot of the brick we see in Milledgeville was laid with softer mortar than anything sold in a bag today. When someone patches it with hard modern mortar, the joint stops giving and the brick takes the stress instead, so the faces start to flake and pop off. Before we touch an older wall, I look at what the original mortar is like and how the brick has worn, and we mix to match it. That's slower, and on old brick I'd rather go slow.

The ground matters as much as the wall. Middle Georgia clay holds water after a summer storm and shrinks back in a dry spell, and that movement shows up as stair-step cracks, leaning garden walls and sunken walks. So we figure out where the roof water lands and how the yard slopes before we fix the crack it caused.

Building permits for work in Milledgeville come from Baldwin County's Planning and Development Department, and the same department runs the building inspections. The county no longer issues permits on the same day and checks the building plans on residential applications first, so a permitted job starts after that review, and we set the start date around it. When your job needs a permit, we handle the application and the inspections, and we're fully licensed and insured. The city's part is business licensing. It bills an Occupation Tax, its tax on doing business in Milledgeville, and owners view and pay that bill on the city's website. Past the paperwork, your price moves with how far the damage runs once things are open and how hard the old brick and mortar are to match, and the schedule moves with that county review and the weather. Your estimate spells out the materials and steps for your own job.

Many of the houses we work on here sit on older streets near downtown and the college, where lots are tight and parking runs short, so we plan where the brick pallets and the mixer go before the first day. We drive over for Milledgeville jobs the same way we head out to Fort Valley and Warner Robins, with the same crew and the same habit of finding the cause first.

Milledgeville is an old city with a lot of old brick. Around the Historic District and downtown, many houses have stood for well over a century, and the masonry on them was laid by hand with soft mortar. If your home sits in a historic or downtown district, we'll help you work through the review steps before work starts, so the crew isn't waiting on them later. Farther out, the neighborhoods turn newer, with brick-front ranch houses, block foundations and yards that run down toward the river.

We're based in Macon, and the kinds of calls we get here are familiar ones. What sets Milledgeville apart is how much of the work is old brick that needs a gentle hand, sitting on clay that moves with the rain, and those two things decide how we approach most jobs here.