Masonry Repair in St. Paul, Backed by a 10-Year Warranty

10 Year

Workmanship warranty, in writing

From your first call to a finished job

You call and reach a person.

You get a person during business hours. If you are more than about forty-five miles from St. Paul, we will ask for photos before we drive.

Sam comes out and looks at it.

Free, in person, and Sam does it. Masonry cannot be diagnosed over the phone.

You are told what it needs and what it does not.

Including when the answer is that it is fine for now. Several of our reviews are from people we talked out of work.

A written estimate with the options laid out.

Where a repair and a rebuild are both defensible, you get both, with how long each should last.

The crew that quoted it is the crew that does it.

The same foreman leads most jobs. Sam is on site for the complex ones. We clean up.

Why the small crack is the expensive one

Masonry in this state fails slowly and then all at once. A joint takes water, a winter widens it, and for several years nothing visible happens. Then the joints crack through, and the deterioration turns fast. Almost everything on this site is about catching a wall in the years before that turn, because that is the difference between a repair and a rebuild.

That is the whole argument for looking at it early. A joint that gets repointed while it is still a joint is a modest job. The same wall left until the brick is spalling and the wall has started to lean is a rebuild, and the difference between those two invoices runs into tens of thousands. We would rather quote you the small one.

Four things we spend a lot of time undoing

REAL JOB: THE LEAK NOBODY COULD FIND

A homeowner had water running into her fireplace whenever it rained hard. Another company had already rebuilt the chimney and poured a new crown, and when it still leaked, they caulked it. Sam found the entry point in an afternoon with a garden hose, and it was the crown that was only months old.

Sam, talking about a recent job

REAL JOB: A TWELVE-FOOT BRICK WALL

Sam and the crew replaced a twelve-foot section of brick wall. What the customer wrote afterward was that none of the things that set us apart were actually in the contract: straightforward communication, work done properly, and a fair price. His closing line was that he felt good about writing the check.

Google review, October 2025

Golden Stones Masonry is a family-run masonry contractor working across St. Paul, Minneapolis, and the surrounding Twin Cities. Sam Tuhy started laying brick alongside a master mason, worked his way up through other people's crews, and founded this company in 2022 after repeatedly meeting homeowners who had been quoted one price for one option on a house that needed something else entirely.

Cracked brick, mortar you can rake out with a finger, water coming through a basement wall or down a fireplace. Whatever brought you here, one call gets you a real person and a free in-person look at it. We will tell you what it needs, what it does not need, and how much each option costs before you decide.

2022

Founded in St. Paul, family-run and owner-led

Most residential chimney work falls between $3,500 and $8,000, depending on how much of the stack is involved. Our chimney repair page publishes the full tier table, including what height and roof pitch add.

Because we would be guessing, and a guess helps nobody. How far the spalling runs, how deep the joints have opened, and where the water is entering all change the job. The visit is free, and it is the only honest way to price it.

Several, and they are listed on their respective pages. The short version is that we are masons: brick, stone, mortar, and concrete crowns. We pass along anything inside the flue, anything involving gas, and anything to do with drainage systems or structural piering.

No. If your flue liner needs replacing, we will tell you and point you to someone who does that work.

There is a specific test that turns on three things: how many brick faces have spalled, whether you can see into the joints, and whether the stack leans. We publish the whole rule, including the borderline cases, on our chimney rebuild and tuckpointing pages, so you can check any contractor's answer against it. Sam will also apply it out loud, standing at the wall.

It may well be a mortar problem rather than a water problem, and the two need completely different companies. Our basement page explains how to tell them apart, including cases where drainage is the right answer and we are not the right people for you.

No. We do interior tuckpointing, parging and hydraulic patching. Drain tile, sump pumps, and exterior waterproofing excavation are not our work, and we will tell you plainly when that is what you actually need.

Usually close, and our supplier is unusually good at it. What we will and will not promise about matching is set out properly on our brick repair page, because it is the question that homeowners are most often given a misleading answer.

Yes. Interior work carries straight on: basement and foundation repointing, fireplaces and interior stone. So do estimates and emergency call-outs. The one thing that waits is fresh mortar or concrete laid outside, because neither cures in a hard freeze.

In season, usually within about a month for non-urgent work. For active water coming in we can normally be out within two weeks of the quote being approved, and we will come and look the same day if you call early enough.

Evenings and weekends, for water actively getting into the house or masonry that has become a hazard. We are not a twenty-four-hour operation and will not pretend to be. Urgent scheduling does cost more, and we will tell you that before you agree to it.

Our workmanship on what we performed. It is not a materials warranty, and it is not a guarantee against a different part of the house failing later. Ask us for the written terms before you sign anything.