Masonry Contractor in Lakeville
10 Years
Workmanship warranty, in writing
92.3 percent of Lakeville's housing postdates 1970, one of the highest shares of any city we cover, and the median home here was built in 1999. The city only incorporated in 1967.
That changes what this page is for. In the older parts of the metro we are repairing masonry that has been failing for decades. In Lakeville most of what we are asked for is stone that is not there yet.
What People Call Us About Out Here
A backyard that needs something built
The Lakeville conversation we have most often. Larger lots, newer houses, and outdoor space the builder left as grass. Fire features, seating walls, stone steps down a slope, a path to somewhere.
A chimney top that is younger than most of the ones we look at
The median Lakeville house is now more than twenty-five years old. That is early for a crown to be a problem, and it is also the window in which catching one still means a seal and not a rebuild.
A retaining wall that is not holding
Common on Lakeville's rolling ground. Whether we can help depends entirely on what it is made of, which is the first question we will ask.
An entry or step that has moved
Usually a bedding problem from when the lot was first built on, and usually cheaper to correct than people assume.
The small pre-1970 share
About 1,650 Lakeville homes date from 1940 to 1969, and roughly 340 predate 1940. Those are ordinary repair jobs, and they look nothing like the rest of this list.
What We Do In Lakeville
Weighted toward new work, because a city with this little old housing does not need the repair menu. Everything below is in natural stone, and where the choice makes sense, you can have it in fieldstone.
Fire pits and outdoor fire features
Built in fieldstone where you want it to look like it came out of this ground, or in cut stone where you want it formal. Sited and bedded to survive a Minnesota winter without heaving, which is the part that decides whether it is still level in five years.
Seating walls and freestanding stone walls
In fieldstone or cut stone. A wall that is only there to be looked at still has frost to deal with, which is why this is the piece of an outdoor project most often built badly.
Stone steps and pathways
Cut into slopes and set to sit still. On the rolling ground most of this city is laid out across, a run of stone steps changes how a property works more than almost anything else at the price.
Retaining walls, in natural stone only
New builds, and rebuilds of existing walls where the stone is natural. Modular block is outside what we do, and in a city that put up most of its housing after 1990, a great many of the walls already in the ground are exactly that.
Chimney crowns, caps and repair
The one repair service that applies to nearly every house here. Our crown page covers what the job involves and what each option costs. The Lakeville point is that on housing this new it is usually still a maintenance call. Sealing a sound crown is significantly cheaper than rebuilding a broken one, and which you choose depends on how long it has been left.
Entry, stoop and step rebuilds
Taken back to a proper footing, which on graded ground is the whole job.
Repair on the pre-1970 share
Brick, mortar and foundation work on the small part of Lakeville old enough to need it. It starts with the year the house was built.
No Reachable Rock, And The Material That Leaves You
Analysis of the state atlas mapping puts the mean depth to rock across Lakeville at about 177 feet, with under one percent of the city within fifty feet of bedrock and not a single mapped outcrop inside the city limits. What is down there is mostly St. Peter Sandstone, which crumbles between your fingers and is no use as a building stone. There is no quarry here and no rock shallow enough to have supported one.
Which matters more here than it would in an older city, because in Lakeville the stone question is almost always about something being built now rather than something being repaired. On a large new-build lot the material is a live choice, and one of the options is fieldstone: the rounded, weathered boulders the ice left behind, turned out of fields across southern Minnesota by a century of farming and used for foundations, fireplaces and chimneys wherever there was no rock to cut.
We build in it, and it is worth asking for. A fieldstone fire feature or seating wall on an open Lakeville lot sits in the ground in a way a pallet of quarried limestone never quite manages. Cut stone is the other answer, and it is the right one for a formal terrace. This is the one decision on this page that concerns the property rather than the house.
What It Costs
No travel charge and the same prices as everywhere else. One honest note: There is no travel charge to Lakeville and no minimum job size, so a small job here may be grouped with other work out there when we schedule it. That is a small crew being straight with you, and it is not a surcharge in disguise.
New stone work is quoted at the visit and always has been, because the number depends on the stone, the ground, and the size of what you want, and a published range for it would be a guess dressed up as information.
The repair numbers we do publish apply here unchanged. Chimney repair on a single-story house runs near $3,500, a crown rebuild costs around $5,500, and minor brick replacement starts at about $1,500. Exterior work waits on a stretch mild enough for mortar to cure, and the calendar fills from the front, so an early call and a late one are not the same conversation.
Every one of those figures depends on square footage and on what we find when we look. They are rough guides to help you decide whether to call, not quotes. The exact number comes after the visit, and the visit is free.
What Customers Say
Lakeville does not appear by name in any review we have been left, and we are not going to invent one. The live Google feed sits here, and you can judge from what is actually written there.
Google review, September 2025Tell us what is going on with your masonry
Tell us what you are seeing and attach photos if you have them. Sam comes out himself, and you get the options priced in writing. No charge either way, and no service call fee.
Common Questions In Lakeville
Not within reach. The county atlas mapping, read against the city boundary, puts the average depth to rock at around 177 feet, with less than 1% of Lakeville within 50 feet of it and no mapped outcrops at all. What is down there crumbles between your fingers.
It is the rounded boulder the glaciers left, which is what you get where there is no bedrock to quarry. It went into foundations, fireplaces, and chimneys across southern Minnesota for a century. Yes, you can have it. On a large lot, the material looks like it belongs, because in a sense it does.
Yes, and what decides it is the bed underneath and how the stone is set. Its appearance has nothing to do with whether it survives. A fire feature that heaves after two winters was built on the wrong bed.
No. Natural stone is the only thing we build and repair in. In a city that put up most of its walls after 1990, that rules a lot of them out, and you should know before you spend an afternoon on quotes.
Yours is among the newest housing we get called to, so the honest answer is not much yet. The chimney top will want looking at within a few years, and catching it at that stage is cheap. Beyond that, what we would do for you is build something, not repair something.
Yes, and nothing is added for it. Lakeville work is priced exactly as it would be for a house three streets from us.
Get A Free Estimate In Lakeville
For new work, a photograph of the space and a rough idea of what you want in it is plenty to start. Measurements can wait, and so can deciding between fieldstone and cut stone.
For anything on the chimney, one photograph from the ground. Tell us the year the house was built either way, because in Lakeville that decides which of these two conversations we are having.
Call (612) 509-0718 · Natural stone only · Free estimate, in person · MN BC807211