Edgar’s Masonry Construction

Edgar came out and gave me an estimate for some tuckpointing. I decided to proceed with the work. However, the company never answered any of my phone calls. They also did not respond to my e-​mails. I suspected they were screening my calls so I decided to call them from my friends phone. Guess what? They answered the phone. Edgar’s Masonry is unprofessional. Who knows what would have happened if I gave them a deposit.

Edgar’s Masonry did a good job re-​pointing our chimney. We liked that Edgar provided an accurate, competitive estimate for the job based on photographs of the area that needed work; a lot of other businesses that we considered insisted on coming out and charging for an estimate. Edgar arrived on time and did a thorough, professional job.

I have used Edgar’s Masonry for two jobs on our house and have been extremely pleased with the quality of work, timeliness, responsiveness, and cost.
Last Fall, Edgar’s Masonry repointed cracked mortar and repaired cracked bricks on the exterior of our 75 year old brick colonial. They worked over a weekend to complete the job promptly and did more repairing than I thought they would. The repairs have held up well and improved the look of the house.
Recently, we brought back Edgar’s Masonry to completely replace our crumbling brick stairs and stoop and to rebuild part of a brick walkway. Again, they worked over the weekend and finished surprisingly fast. I am amazed at the quality look and feel of the new steps and walkway. The quality is better than I anticipated. In addition, they built small brick walls around adjacent garden beds to prevent erosion and improve the overall aesthetics of the project. They did more than expected and really sharpened the appearance of the front entryway of our house.
Edgar is very responsive to customer desires and very friendly. The crew did a great job of keeping the work area clean and minimizing the disruption from noise over the weekend. The cost was very reasonable for the amount of reconstruction involved… and while at our house for this job, Edgar’s Masonry repaired an additional small crack in the house’s exterior wall that had appeared since the previous Fall without even being asked.
Highly recommended for brick repair and new masonry projects. I would use again and recommend to friends.

Edgar has done quite a bit of work on my 120+ year old victorian in dc. Part of the courtyard had bricks that were crumbling, and i was afraid they would fall on me or other residents — so his crew repointed those. The bigger job was for the main house– 2 sides of my house, a large 2 story victorian, and the chimney above, needed to be repointed. Previous owners had at some point poured black tar over most of the walls, so not only was the mortar almost gone but the wall was really black and ugly with all that tar. Much of the tar had to be removed before they could even get to repointing. One of walls was bowing out and also had a few big cracks — it looked scary and unstable.
Edgar’s crew was at my house for a little over 3 weeks, and they even asked to and worked every saturday. They fixed all of it. The bowed out part of the wall was actually taken down brick by brick and completely rebuilt. Edgar came by every few days, and was around to answer any questions I had. The end product looks great. Brick repointing is a very expensive process, but given the level of effort involved, his price was fair and reasonable. The crew kept my backyard reasonably clean, though i did have to point out a few things once in a while.
Edgar is one of the preferred masonry contractors for DC Historic Preservation League, and when it comes to working with old houses, they know what they doing. Overall, I had a very good experience, and would use him again. He has also done brick repointing work at several other homes in my neighborhood. I did not have any trouble getting hold of him or his staff, as some other reviewers stated. But it is possible that he tends to focus on the bigger jobs — it’s hard to get a lot of contractors to come out for smaller jobs nowadays.

Update: Edgar never got us the proposal. We gave up and stopped contacting him. He obviously doesn’t need the money or my business.