The houses

Mount Airy is known for large three-story, gray-stone Victorian, Colonial Revival, Norman and Cotswold-style houses. Germantown Avenue, its main commercial street, is stone-paved. Wissahickon schist, a silver to brown mica schist, is quarried locally as a building stone.

What to know about pointing here

Stone walls usually have wider, less regular joints than brick, and the mortar’s color and texture shape the look of the whole house. NPS’s rule still applies: mortar softer than the stone. Ask for a sample area. Part of Germantown Avenue is in the Central Mount Airy commercial historic district, where masonry work needs Historical Commission review.

ZIP codes: 19119, 19150. We refer requests from anywhere in Philadelphia to independent contractors; we do not have offices or crews in any neighborhood.

Nearby

Fairmount · Spring Garden · Fishtown

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Tell us the address ZIP, which wall and what you’re seeing. We pass it to one independent Philadelphia contractor who does masonry work, and they contact you to set up a look and a written quote.

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Philly Brick Pointing is a free referral service, not a masonry contractor. We pass your request to an independent Philadelphia contractor, who quotes and does the work.

Brick pointing in Mount Airy