Tuckpointing in St. Louis Park
In St. Louis Park, the brick wall that needs repointing may well belong to a building that several households share. The City's own 2017 count put apartments at 37 percent of the homes here. We take on brick apartment buildings as well as houses. A call can be about a house, an apartment walk-up, or a building in a larger complex, and access differs between them.
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Workmanship warranty, in writing
Apartment Buildings From the 1960s Boom
From the City's comprehensive plan: "The City experienced a building boom for apartments in the 1960s when many of the community's smaller apartment buildings were constructed." Of the 209 apartment parcels in St. Louis Park with a build year in Hennepin County's records, 105 date to the 1960s. On the county's list, the buildings fall into a few clear groups:
The Historical Society's history of Manhattan Park, on 31st Street West at the Minneapolis line, shows how the walk-ups on that street went up: one or two lots at a time, each building replacing an older house. Three built there in 1966 and 1967 are recorded as substantially the same as one another. So on that street, buildings put up a year apart shared one design, and each building's walls date from its own year.
Before you call
Every figure on this page 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.
Meadowbrook Manor, Faced in Brick
One well-documented example sits on Excelsior Boulevard. Meadowbrook Manor was first occupied in 1950, and the St. Louis Park Historical Society describes 58 buildings on 25 acres, 36 of them garden apartment buildings drawn to one plan. "The buildings were faced with brick, an upscale signal," its newsletter records, and "some had pitched roofs and some flat." The City's housing plan calls it the largest multifamily housing project in the Midwest at the time, with more than 500 units.
A site laid out like that is one wall repeated dozens of times, with matching brick, matching joints, and the same years of weather. The roof is the exception: a pitched-roof building finishes under the eaves, and a flat-roofed twin may end in exposed brick at the top, so the same plan may require different work up high.
The same newsletter records what broke the pattern later: after the property changed hands in 2016, upgrades to the complex began, and a couple of the original buildings came down to make room for a new community building. One plan no longer means one condition.
Larger Buildings From the 1970s and 1980s
The same plan says apartment construction here "continued through the 1980s, with the newer construction being larger buildings." Hennepin County's record shows the slowdown: 19 apartment parcels from the 1970s and 1980s, against 105 from the 1960s. A building's height does not rule it out for us.
A condo building run by its owners' association is not a job for us.
Who Can Let Us Onto the Roof
On a house, the owner is the person who meets Sam and walks him around. On a walk-up or a larger complex, the visit goes better with whoever holds the keys to the roof hatch and can say where staging may stand in the lot. If the building has a management company, the written scope can go to the contact there as well as to you.
Older Houses Along the Old Streetcar Lines
The City's neighborhood plans trace the oldest street grids in Brookside, Browndale, Sorensen, Fern Hill, and Birchwood to the streetcar lines along Minnetonka Boulevard and the south edge of the city. A brick house on those grids is priced on the house line below.
Questions About Shops With Apartments Above
Our building has shops on the ground floor and apartments above. Where do we start?+
Start with our commercial masonry page, which covers light commercial work.
What Repointing Runs Here
The published ranges on our tuckpointing page are for houses:
Every figure on this page 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.
Before you call
Every figure on this page 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.
One Call for the Whole Building
Call with the address, the kind of building, and, for anything bigger than a house, who manages it.
The address matters more than the name. The five buildings of Park Point, built in 1948 on Minnetonka Boulevard and Highway 7, have gone by at least five other names, by the Historical Society's count, and one of them, Garden Village, also appears on the Society's list for a 1951 complex on Raleigh Avenue.
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