Brick, block and stone · the District and the near suburbs

A real number for the brickwork, before anybody stands in your garden.

Measure the wall, pick the unit, tell us whether it is standing on anything. You get a price range in about a minute. Then we come and measure it properly and confirm the figure in writing before a pallet is ordered.

Price my brickwork Call (301) 555-0142

DCRA licensed and insured Historic lime mortar matched by hand Every mason is ours

Instant price range

Everything stands on a footingBelow the frost line, or it moves every winter and cracks. We do not skip that to win a job.

Mortar softer than the brickOn an old house that is not a preference, it is the difference between a repair and ruined brick.

We measure wall, not groundDriveways, patios and walkways are a flatwork contractor’s job. We will tell you who to call.

Stone we come and look atFull-bed stone is priced off the pallet and the mason’s hands. No form can work that out honestly.

What we do

Walls, steps, veneer and the joints between

Wall ties, weeps, a cap and a swept site are in every wall we quote. The skip goes on the truck when we leave, and the mortar board does not spend the night on your path.

Garden and privacy walls

Two skins, a cavity, finished both sides and capped, on a footing we dig and pour. Forty feet at four feet high is the job we do most.

Priced on this page

Brick and block veneer

A single skin tied back to what is already carrying the load — a gable end, an addition, a foundation wall you would rather not look at.

Counted, not measured

Steps and stoops

Brick or block on a poured core, treads and cheek walls in the same unit as the wall. Priced per step, because a step is a little wall with a tread on it.

Instead of natural stone

Manufactured thin veneer

A light unit set in mortar over lath. It is slower to lay than brick and it prices like it — but it is a rate, which full-bed stone is not.

Priced on this page

Repointing and masonry repair

Joints cut out to twice their width and replaced, not skimmed over. Spalled brick swapped one at a time. The work most rowhouses here need once.

Site visit

Stone, structural and chimney rebuilds

Full-bed stone, a foundation wall, a leaning retaining wall, or a chimney stack to rebuild above the flashing. We come and look at those.

How we price

By the square foot of wall, and we say which square feet

The form at the top of this page uses our real rates. It shows a range rather than a single number because what the wall is standing on, and how a pallet of brick actually gets to the back of the house, are things we can only settle in your garden.

Measure the face

Length times height, one face, in feet. Then the wall type, the unit, how many steps and whether there is a footing under it. The same questions we ask on the phone.

See the range

Midpoint plus or minus 9%. Jobs under our $1,450 minimum quote at the minimum. Anything over $20,000 gets a visit instead of a number.

We measure and confirm

Free measure, exact price, written scope. Travel is priced from your ZIP, and our cold-weather masonry rate (+10%) applies from December 1 to March 15, because mortar will not cure below about 40 degrees and a winter wall is built tented, on heated water and thawed sand. Repointing and masonry repair carries no seasonal rate at all — we simply do not book it in those months, because an open wall cannot be tented and the mortar would fail.

Service area

Based in Washington. We say what the trip costs before we make it.

Your ZIP code sets the travel line on your estimate. No surprises on the invoice, and no free hour on a bridge at eight in the morning quietly built into everybody else’s price.

Local: the DistrictZIPs 200xx
No travel fee
Prince George's and Montgomery CountyZIPs 207xx, 208xx and 209xx
+$95
Northern Virginia, across the riverZIPs 220xx, 221xx, 222xx and 223xx
+$175
Everywhere else we travelAny other ZIP we can reach
+$295 and +5%

Notes for anyone evaluating the demo

Priced path. Pick Brick and block masonry, then: 160 square feet of wall face, a freestanding garden or privacy wall, standard modular brick, 3 steps, no existing footing, an old fence to take out, access Yes. Use ZIP 20017. The live pricing engine returns $11,535 – $13,817 with the disclaimer, and the lead lands in the demo account’s inbox. That is a forty-foot brick garden wall four feet high with three steps up to the yard: 160 sq ft at $34 is $5,440, three steps at $825 is $2,475 and the fence allowance is $650, making $8,565 of dollars; the freestanding band (+30%) and the new footing (+18%) pool to +48% and apply once to all of it, for a midpoint of $12,676.20.
Percentages pool, they do not compound. That is the whole arithmetic above: +30 and +18 add to +48%, not to a 1.30 × 1.18 that would land at +53.4% and $463 higher on this job. It is the version a homeowner can follow on the phone, which is why the engine does it that way.
Where the pooling is a compromise, said out loud. A pooled percentage lands on the whole additive figure, so the +30% freestanding band is applied to the three steps and to the fence allowance as well as to the wall. On the priced path that is about $937 of the $12,676 midpoint. The wall-type question’s help text says it is “figured across the job” rather than implying it is a per-square-foot rate, and the measure is where it is trued up.
The material question is the one to read twice. Brick, block and manufactured thin veneer are three modular units laid to a line, so their spread really is a percentage of each other and the dropdown carries it: the same wall in concrete block is $9,197 – $11,016 (−30%) and in manufactured thin stone veneer is $14,029 – $16,805 (+32%). Natural full-bed stone is deliberately not on that list. Its price is the stone on the pallet and the hours a mason spends fitting each piece, not a step up from brick, so no percentage on that list could carry it honestly — and any percentage would then also be applied to the steps, the footing and the demolition, which cost the same whatever the wall is made of. Stone is the first case on the site-visit service instead, and the question’s help text says so. This page therefore never prints a per-square-foot figure for stone, because the fixture cannot compute one.
The per-unit rates are the only things that multiply. Wall face and steps are multiply rules; the wall type, the unit and the footing are percentages, and the demolition allowance is a flat amount added once for the job however long the wall is. Strip the priced path back to a bare veneer — 160 sq ft, veneer on an existing wall, standard brick, 0 steps, existing footing, nothing to remove — and you see the base rate on its own: $4,950 – $5,930, a $5,440 midpoint, which is exactly 160 × $34.
Travel zone. Repeat the priced path with ZIP 20740 (College Park) for the inner ring: $11,622 – $13,921. With 22201 (Arlington) across the river: $11,695 – $14,008. Any ZIP outside the listed prefixes, whether 21201 (Baltimore) or 75001 (Texas), falls to the catch-all zone: $12,381 – $14,829, the percentage first and then the flat fee.
Out of area. Use ZIP 99901. The visitor gets a polite decline instead of a price, and the lead is still captured.
Over the ceiling. Enter 260 sq ft, freestanding wall, manufactured thin stone veneer, 4 steps, no footing, an old fence out, access Yes. The midpoint works out at $23,022, clearing the service’s $20,000 ceiling, so the widget routes to “we’ll come and measure” rather than printing a number.
Minimum floor. 20 sq ft, veneer on an existing wall, concrete block, 0 steps, existing footing, nothing to remove, access Yes, ZIP 20017: the job works out at $476, under the $1,450 minimum, and quotes at $1,450 – $1,581. Note the low end of the band is the floor itself, not 9% below it.
A rule that raises the floor, and it is keyed to a NO. 60 sq ft of brick veneer on an existing footing, 0 steps, nothing to remove, and No to “can a mixer and a pallet get within fifty feet”: the work itself is $2,040, but the rule lifts the minimum to $4,200 and the quote comes back $4,200 – $4,578. A pallet of brick weighs more than a ton; if it all goes through the house by wheelbarrow that is two extra men for the whole job, whatever the wall measures.
The second instant service, and the one with a real trip charge. Pick Repointing and masonry repair: 400 square feet of face, two stories, joints raked out deep with faces spalling, 40 brick to swap, no lintel, soft lime mortar Yes, ZIP 20017. $9,984 – $12,452 — a two-story rowhouse front repointed — and the $185 set-up charge is inside that number rather than added at the door, because it is the service’s base fee and is added once however much wall we cut out. Answer No to the lime-mortar question and it is $9,030 – $11,262; add a lintel to rebuild and it is $11,171 – $13,933. The cheapest possible answer set floors at the service minimum: $650 – $722. Its ceiling is $18,000, which a three-story front — 600 sq ft on scaffold, 60 brick, a lintel and lime mortar — clears at $20,885, so that one routes: it is a month with a scaffold licence, not a form quote.
A flat travel fee dominates a small job. A 60 sq ft patch of ground-floor repointing on lime mortar is $1,049 – $1,308 in the District. Run the same answers against ZIP 21201 and the catch-all zone takes it to $1,364 – $1,701: the $295 trip fee is a fifth of the quote. That is honest arithmetic and it is also the reason we do not chase patches up the parkway.
The season sits on one service, and it is an uplift rather than a discount. Brick and block masonry carries the cold-weather masonry rate, +10% from December 1 to March 15. That window crosses the new year, so it is a wrap-around season — the engine matches those with OR rather than AND — and unlike the wrap-arounds in the concrete and decks demos this one is POSITIVE, because mortar will not cure below about 40 degrees and a winter wall is built with heated mixing water, thawed sand and a tented enclosure kept above freezing while it sets. Re-run the priced path with --date=2026-01-15 and it comes back $12,689 – $15,199 instead of $11,535 – $13,817. Repointing and masonry repair carries no season at all, and that is a decision rather than an omission: six hundred square feet of open rowhouse front cannot be tented, so this shop does not take repointing bookings in those months at any price, and the service’s disclaimer says so instead of pretending a percentage covers it. Both branches of the engine’s season handling are therefore exercised on this one page.
Routing mode, and where this trade stops. Pick Stone, structural and chimney rebuilds. That service is in site-visit mode, so it never shows a price at all; the visitor sees “we like to see it first”. None of its questions carries a pricing rule. It exists for the two things this trade genuinely cannot quote from a form — natural full-bed stone, whose price is the pallet and the time a mason spends turning each piece, and anything structural. It is also where the chimney line is drawn: a stack rebuilt above the flashing is brick and mortar and it is a mason’s work, but sweeping, inspection, relining and caps are not, and the question’s help text says so in as many words rather than leaving the trade page to.
Where this account stops on the other side. Every priced question here measures a square foot of WALL FACE. There is no driveway, patio or walkway anywhere in the fixture, because those are priced per square foot of ground by Truelevel Concrete and by the paving demo. A brick wall around a patio is this account’s; the patio inside it is not. The one horizontal thing on the card is a masonry step, and it is a count rather than an area.
The homeowner does the arithmetic, and the help text says so. There is no length-by-height box in the engine — no rule kind multiplies one answer by another — so the wall question asks for one total and its help text does the teaching: one face, three real reference figures to check against, and a promise that we measure it ourselves before anything is ordered. Same handling the concrete and roofing demos use for area and for roof squares.
The photo question carries no rule. Photos never move the price — the engine skips them entirely. Nothing is uploaded either: on a demo the visitor can tick “I have photos I can send” and the lead records “Has photos to send, not uploaded”, which is the owner’s cue to ask for pictures on the call. Attaching the image itself is on the roadmap.
The missed-call text-back. The CallMitt page replays which of five messages a missed caller would get and why. Straight about where it stands: nothing on this platform delivers a text message yet, because there is no SMS gateway and no carrier registration, so the reply becomes an outbox row marked queued and stops there. The rules, the hours, the quiet hours and the opt-out handling are built and running.
The widget’s fired clay matches this site because the account’s key carries a theme color; the same script on an agency’s client site would carry the agency’s color.