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Serving Daly City, CA and surrounding areas. (650) 509-3556
Daly City Concrete & Masonry is a masonry contractor serving San Francisco, CA with brick repair, foundation repair, and chimney restoration across the city's diverse housing stock. Based in neighboring Daly City, our crew works throughout San Francisco and responds to new inquiries within one business day.
Daly City Concrete & Masonry is a masonry contractor serving San Francisco, CA with brick repair, foundation repair, and chimney restoration across the city's diverse housing stock. Based in neighboring Daly City, our crew works throughout San Francisco and responds to new inquiries within one business day.
San Francisco's Victorian and Edwardian homes were built with soft, lime-based mortars that age differently from modern materials. Our brick repair work on historic city properties matches original mortar composition and texture so repairs integrate rather than stand out, and new material holds up against the fog and seismic conditions that San Francisco homeowners deal with every year.
More than half of San Francisco's homes were built before 1950, and many sit on soft soils in neighborhoods across the western side of the city. We stabilize settling foundations on older wood-frame and multi-unit buildings, with permitted work documented by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection.
San Francisco sits near multiple active fault lines, and chimneys on older city homes are among the first things to shift after ground movement. We inspect, repair, and document chimney work on Victorian single-families and multi-unit buildings across all neighborhoods.
The Sunset and Richmond districts are full of stucco row houses built in the 1930s through 1950s, and their exteriors take a daily beating from the marine layer. We restore deteriorated mortar, patch stucco cracks, and seal surfaces so the moisture that rolls in off the ocean every morning has fewer places to find its way in.
Many of San Francisco's older homes have original mortar joints that are now crumbling or receding, giving fog and rain a direct path into the wall structure. We remove deteriorated mortar and pack in fresh material matched to the original, extending the life of brick and stone surfaces on historic properties across the city.
Sloped lots are common throughout San Francisco, particularly in neighborhoods like Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, and Twin Peaks. We build and repair concrete block and stone retaining walls on city properties, accounting for the tight access and soil conditions that hillside San Francisco lots present.
San Francisco has one of the oldest housing stocks on the West Coast. More than half of the city's homes were built before 1950, and a large portion date back to before 1940. The Victorians and Edwardians that fill neighborhoods from Noe Valley to the Western Addition are wood-frame buildings with original decorative masonry details, chimneys, and foundations that are now well over 100 years old. The row houses in the Sunset and Richmond - most built in the 1930s and 1940s - are stucco-clad and sitting in the foggiest part of the city. In both cases, the masonry components of these homes have been dealing with moisture, seismic activity, and age for a long time.
San Francisco's climate delivers persistent fog from June through August, then heavy rain from November through March. There is almost no dry reprieve. Wood-frame homes absorb moisture through every gap in the exterior cladding, mortar joints fail faster here than in drier climates, and the city's position near multiple active fault lines means even small earthquakes add stress to masonry that is already aging. A masonry contractor working in San Francisco needs to account for all of these conditions when selecting materials and planning repairs - not just match what they see on the surface.
Our crew works throughout San Francisco regularly, and we understand the practical realities of working on city properties - narrow 25-foot lots, shared walls with neighbors, limited street parking, and the permit requirements of the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection. We handle structural masonry permits through the city on a regular basis, which means the administrative side of your project does not become your problem. The homes we work on range from Victorian single-families in Noe Valley and Cole Valley to stucco row houses in the Outer Sunset and Richmond, and from duplexes in the Mission to hillside properties near Twin Peaks. Each neighborhood has its own character, and working across all of them means we rarely encounter a site condition we have not dealt with before.
We are based just south of the city in Daly City, which puts us close to San Francisco's southern neighborhoods and keeps our drive time short for early-start jobs. The neighborhoods near Fisherman's Wharf, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Alamo Square - where the famous Painted Ladies Victorians sit - are all familiar territory. Our neighboring service area of Daly City shares many of the same housing conditions as San Francisco's southern neighborhoods, and homeowners throughout the area can reach us for the same type of work. We also serve Oakland, which has a similar mix of older housing stock and the same seismic and coastal moisture considerations as the San Francisco Bay.
We respond to all new inquiries within one business day. When you call or submit a request, we ask a few basic questions about your home's age, what you are seeing, and where the concern is. Every job starts with an in-person look - no honest estimate is possible over the phone on a property as variable as a San Francisco home.
We come to the property, inspect the work area, and give you a written estimate before anything begins. For structural work - foundation repair, chimney rebuilds, or seismic-related masonry - we will tell you upfront whether a permit from the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection is required. Permit timelines are factored into the schedule before you say yes.
Once you approve the estimate, we schedule the start date around your availability. Most targeted repairs take one to three days. Larger projects get a day-by-day schedule in advance. Staging on a San Francisco city lot takes planning, and we communicate clearly about what access we need and how long each phase will take.
When the work is done, we clean up and walk you through the completed job. For any permitted work, we coordinate the city inspector's sign-off visit so your file is complete. New mortar needs 24 to 72 hours before it can get wet, and we will tell you exactly what to avoid during that window.
Call or fill out the form and we will get back to you within one business day. No commitment, no pressure - just a straight answer about what your San Francisco property needs.
(650) 509-3556San Francisco is a city of 47 square miles and roughly 875,000 residents, packed into one of the most geographically distinct urban environments in the United States. The city is built across a peninsula, with the Pacific Ocean to the west and San Francisco Bay to the east, connected to the north by the Golden Gate Bridge. Its neighborhoods range from the densely packed Victorian blocks around Alamo Square - home to the Painted Ladies - to the foggy stucco row houses of the Outer Sunset and the steep hillside streets of Bernal Heights and Twin Peaks. Most residential lots are narrow, typically 25 feet wide, and homes sit close together or share walls. Single-family homes exist but are less common here than in any other major American city.
The housing stock is genuinely old. A large share of the city's homes were built before World War II, many of them reconstructed after the 1906 earthquake and fire. The western neighborhoods - the Sunset, the Richmond, and the Outer Avenues - are filled with row houses built in the 1930s and 1940s, while Noe Valley, Cole Valley, and the Haight have Victorian and Edwardian single-families that date to the early 1900s. These properties are beautiful and valuable, and they need masonry maintenance that accounts for their age, the city's persistent fog, and the seismic reality of living near multiple active fault lines. For homeowners in neighboring Daly City and further south on the Peninsula, the same crew and the same expertise is available.
Build solid retaining walls to control erosion and grade changes.
Learn MoreInstall block foundation walls built for strength and durability.
Learn MoreCall us today or send a message and we will respond within one business day. San Francisco properties are valuable - the sooner a masonry problem is addressed, the less it costs to fix.