American Force General Construction LLC handles masonry repair, restoration, and new stonework across New Jersey — steps, retaining walls, chimneys, and exterior facades.
Since 2002
Masonry work at American Force General Construction covers repair, restoration, and new stone installation. The work sits on exterior surfaces: front steps, retaining walls, facades, walkways, and stone details around entrances. Houses, offices, retail spaces, and apartment buildings all qualify.
Masonry fails slowly. A hairline crack takes on water, freezes, and opens a little more every winter until the joint gives out. Catching it at the crack stage is the difference between a repointing job and a full rebuild later.
5 masonry sub-services under one contract, handled by the same crew from inspection through the final cleanup.
Masonry repair on cracked joints, loose stone, spalling surfaces, and sections that shifted. Repair means removing the failed material and rebuilding that section, not smearing mortar over it. Most masonry repair starts as a joint problem and turns structural if it waits.
Exterior masonry repair on surfaces that take rain, road salt, and freeze cycles. Front steps, porch landings, retaining walls, and foundation faces sit lowest and take the most water. Water that gets into an exterior wall does not dry out, it freezes.
Stonework on facades, columns, entrances, garden walls, and other exterior details. Fitting stone is slower than laying block, because every piece has to sit where it lands. Good stonework reads as part of the building, not as something applied to it later.
Stone installation starts below the surface, with a base that will not shift. Base preparation, drainage, setting bed, and joint work all happen before the stone looks like anything. Stone set on a bad base moves, and moving stone opens every joint.
Masonry restoration brings an older surface back instead of replacing it entirely. Matching the original stone, the joint width, and the mortar color is most of the work. A restoration that does not match reads worse than the damage it covered up.
Single family homes, duplexes, townhouses, and condo units. Front steps, walkways, entrances, retaining walls, and stone facades get repaired or rebuilt entirely.
Offices, retail spaces, warehouses, and apartment buildings. Facade repair, entrance stonework, and exterior masonry restoration handled for property managers and building owners.
Four steps from the first phone call to the final cleanup — no surprises, no guesswork.
Someone walks the work area, checks the existing stone or brick, and documents what needs rebuilding.
Full scope, materials, unit prices, and total go on paper before any work starts.
Damaged sections come out carefully, the base gets prepared, and materials are staged on site.
Stone or brick goes in with proper mortar joints, cured properly, and the site gets cleared.
A rebuilt wall fails again if the water that broke it is still finding its way back in.
Mortar color and joint width get matched, because a mismatched patch is visible from the street for years.
We say when a section needs rebuilding instead of patching, even when patching would be the easier sale.
A look at completed projects from the field — the materials, the details, and the finished result.
It depends on how deep the damage goes. A joint problem and a section that's shifted are two different jobs. We won't price it until someone has looked at the wall in person first.
Usually, though older stone takes some searching. Mortar color is the harder part, since it fades over decades. We mix to match what's there now, not what it looked like when it was new.
Water, almost always. It gets into a joint, freezes, expands, and pushes the stone apart a little more each winter. Fixing the crack without fixing the water just buys you another season or two.
The inspection answers that one. If the damage sits in the joints and the units are sound, it's a repair. Once the units themselves are breaking down, rebuilding that section is the honest call.
Mortar needs temperature to cure, so deep winter isn't ideal for a rebuild. Small repairs can happen year round. We'll tell you when waiting for spring is the better move for the whole wall.
That comes down to whether the water problem got solved. A rebuilt section with drainage handled holds for a long time. The same section with water still running behind it won't last very long.
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Tell us what needs masonry work done. A contractor comes out, inspects the job, and puts the scope and the price in writing.
No obligation. Response within 2 hours.
Masonry is one of five trades under this roof. Same contractor, same crew, same written scope.
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