Masonry Restoration in Aurora, IL, Brick Repair, Lintel Replacement & Facade Rebuilding
in Aurora, IL

Masonry restoration in Aurora is shaped by the city's development history. The East Side neighborhoods, built in the late 1800s and early 1900s, have brick walls and foundations that were laid with lime mortar and have been absorbing moisture through Kane County's clay-heavy soil for a century. The mortar on these structures is well past its service life, and the brick faces have been cycling through freeze-thaw expansion long enough to show it. Further west, the mid-century and 1970s–1990s construction presents different problems: corroded steel lintels above windows, spalling from inadequate original weatherproofing, and water damage behind walls that weren't properly sealed at installation.

The stair-step crack pattern at window corners is one of the most common masonry restoration calls we take in Aurora, and one of the most misdiagnosed. The crack itself is visible; the corroded lintel that caused it usually isn't. We remove brick courses back to the lintel, replace it with properly sized steel, rebuild the masonry above the opening with matched brick, and repoint the surrounding joints. That's the complete repair. Patching just the crack fails within two winters because the lintel is still expanding.

We handle masonry restoration throughout Aurora and the surrounding Kane and DuPage County area, including Naperville, Wheaton, Schaumburg, and Bolingbrook. Related services include masonry restoration overview and tuckpointing when mortar failure is the primary issue.