Heser Masonry

Gordon and his crew did a wonderful job constructing a new block wall around our backyard. He was even able to have two new swinging gates installed while the wall was being constructed. Looks great!

Historical home chimney rebuilt, house structural mortar maintained (repointed) for first time in eighty years, brick wall the plumbers sawed out repaired better than before, structural soundness restored. Price reasonable.
Three stories follow.
Life’s a golden necklace of stories. Where you grew up, what you ate for breakfast, how cool the new electronic item is. Necklaces come in all qualities and style. Some get lost and broken. Some are full of charms and jewels. I’m not Unilocal*ing in bad Haiku or tweets. I’m boring you with stories. The stories below support why you might consider Gordon Heser for your contractor.
Most pertinent one first.
Phoenix has many historical districts. Lots of early Phoenix construction was brick and mortar. Until 2012, Phoenix had it’s own brick plant. Expense of emission compliance shut it down. Brick and mortar buildings need maintenance as decades pass. When one decides to maintain a historical brick structure in a historical district, there’s lots of city guidance home owners are requested to follow. If one repairs or restores an old house with improper modern materials, more damage is done over time than leaving the place alone. Gordon Heser knows about historical and modern brick composition, and appropriate matches of pattern, materials and mortar. He and his crew do their work in skilled, time tested ways. The hole in the house did not get framed in wood and dressed in brick-​textured stucco, it was reconstructed, better than before.
I knew a man trained to be a naval architect. In Germany, during the WW I years. His talents were identified at 10 years of age. He spent four years learning wood craft, four years learning foundry, blacksmithing and metal work, and four years learning higher math, drafting, design, power plants, etc. When he graduated in 1922, given a mountain of iron ore and forest of trees, Dick could build a battleship. He had no work. Germany was disarmed, suffering weighty economic sanctions and inflation so vast it took a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread. It was cheaper to do homework on money than paper. Dick emigrated to the golden shore by the silver sea. The U.S. would not allow a German naval architect to work in Oakland shipyards, so Dick went to work in the Sierra Nevada sharpening tools for logging crews. By the time he retired from Georgia Pacific, he’d measured all the trees in the forest, extended the logging railroad to reach new trees, made sure steam donkeys were kept running at their peak for harvest, rebuilt and refurbed the saw mill at least twice, and overhauled two Shay locomotives on premises. In the Depression when the mill shut down, he went to work hard rock mining. He also made beautiful bridal chests for his wife and daughters, sampled each of the 22 kinds of wood in the forest, curing and testing the wood for usefulness, then making something from each type of wood. Society no longer educates that way.
Last summer I met a man who’d run graders on Arizona back roads forty six years. He knew how to moisten each kind of sandy, loamy or rocky soil for best structural behavior, take the time and work the blade to pull berm smoothly to the road center, crowning the road for drainage, and not pushing his machine so hard he destroyed it. He worked more than eight hours per day on it, leaving several miles of excellent road usable by all rural travelers in place of the rutted foot-​deep, truck-​stopping dust left by days of wildland firefighting activities. Nobody’s willing to learn his trade. It’s too long, hot, dusty and has no wi-​fi. It’s remote and more than eight hours a day.
Gordon Heser is that kind of craftsman. If you need brick or block work, he’ll git ‘er done right. He gave me a handful of business cards to hand out. I thought this Unilocal*would work pretty well too.