About Bricktime

Second generation, thirty-five years in

Masonry is a trade you inherit. Ours goes back more than thirty-five years to the generation before us, and it was learned the way it has always been learned — on scaffolding, on somebody else's schedule, watching how a wall behaves over decades instead of reading about it.

That is the part you cannot shortcut. Knowing which mortar belongs against which brick, how far to cut back before you are doing more harm than good, when a crack is cosmetic and when it is structural — none of that comes out of a catalogue. It comes from someone showing you, on real buildings, for years.

Bricktime Construction is the current name on the paperwork. The knowledge behind it is a great deal older than the company, and it is why we are comfortable on buildings where the original detail matters and there is no room to guess.

We do the outside of the building

Most contractors treat the envelope as a collection of separate jobs. A mason points the wall, a roofer covers the roof, a concrete crew pours the sidewalk, and when water shows up in a third-floor bedroom every one of them explains why it is somebody else's problem.

Bricktime exists to remove that conversation. Masonry, facade, stoops, sidewalks, roofing and waterproofing are all handled by one company that understands how they connect — because a leak at a parapet is a masonry problem and a roofing problem at the same time.

Restoration, not just repair

A lot of our work is on New York's older housing stock: brownstones and row houses where the original detail is the point. That work has rules. Mortar has to be matched in colour and in strength. Brownstone coats have to be matched on site, because no two blocks are the same shade. Nosings and profiles have to be rebuilt square so water runs off instead of sitting.

Get any of that wrong and the repair is either visible from across the street or it fails within a few winters — often taking original material with it.

Straight answers

We would rather tell you a condition can wait than sell you work you do not need, and we would rather lose a job on price than win it with a number we know will grow once the scaffold is up. The written scope is the price.