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Masonry Repair Cost Calculator

Price repointing, brick repair, veneer, or parging by the square foot. Enter the wall area, pick the work and how high it sits, set your rate — get the price, a fair range, your real profit, and what goes on the truck.

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Price the wall, respect the height

Masonry money is made by the square foot and lost off a ladder. Measure the wall face — width times height — and set a rate that covers mortar, matching, and cleanup, then multiply honestly for anything above 8 feet. Mind the mortar too: old soft brick wants a lime mix, and the wrong bag can wreck a wall you just fixed. Big outfits will not roll a truck for a small repair — that is exactly why a $300 minimum and a one-page estimate win you the patch jobs they turn down.

Questions

How much does repointing cost per square foot?
Ground-level repointing commonly runs $8–$15 per square foot, and true tuckpointing or anything above 8 feet climbs to $10–$25 because the work slows down and the access gets harder. A 100 sq ft wall section typically lands around $800–$1,500. Chimney work above the roofline prices higher still — the scaffold and the height are real costs.
Should masonry be priced per brick or per square foot?
Quote the wall by the square foot — it is how the customer sees the work and how the trade prices it. About seven modular bricks make a square foot, so a per-brick number is just the area rate in disguise. Save flat prices for the jobs that are genuinely flat: a chimney crown repair, a mailbox build, a set of steps.
Why does chimney work cost so much more?
Height and access. The same square footage that prices at $12 on a garden wall can fairly price at double or more above the roofline — staging or scaffold, slower moves, and weather exposure are real costs, and scaffolding alone commonly adds 50–100% to the labor on tall work. Price the height honestly instead of eating it.
How many bricks and bags of mortar do I need?
Modular brick runs about 7 per square foot of wall face, and an 80-lb bag of mortar lays roughly 36 bricks. Repointing uses far less — one bag refills around 40 square feet of standard joints raked ¾ inch deep — while parging covers about 18 square feet per bag at a ⅜ inch coat. This calculator counts all of it for you from the same square footage, waste included.
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