Lemoore is a drive west of us, past Hanford, and the calls we get there sound a lot like the ones from Visalia. A block wall between yards has started to lean, mortar is wearing out of older brick, or a walkway has heaved enough to catch a toe. Homes near downtown, around the Sarah A. Mooney Memorial Museum where people gather for events and school tours, tend to be older than the neighborhoods built out from there, and the two ask different things of a mason. We do the same work in Hanford next door and out east in Lindsay, CA.
The museum reports that its own house, built of Sierra redwood, has weathered well up high while the sill plates, the boards at the base of the walls, have broken down over the years from ground moisture and dry rot. I keep that in mind on masonry in Lemoore too, because the base of a wall is where water sits and where trouble usually starts, so I look at the footing and the ground along it before anything above.
What moves the price and the schedule
The price mostly comes down to how much wall or walkway you need, what has to come out before we build, and how easy the spot is to reach. A backyard wall we can only get to through a narrow side gate means more carrying by hand, and matching older brick takes more time than laying new block. The schedule turns on the same things, plus how long the right material takes to come in and giving a new footing time to set before block goes on it. When I come out, I look at all of that and write the estimate, so you have your own number before anything starts.
Getting a yard ready for a block wall
A lot of what Lemoore homeowners call us about is concrete block walls along a property line or around a patio. Before we start, it helps to have the gate clear and the cars out of the driveway, since that's the path for block, mortar and the crew. If the wall is shared, talk to your neighbor early, because we may need to work from their side at times. Shut off or turn away any sprinklers near the wall line, and tell us where you know of lines in the ground so we can dig the footing without surprises. When we pack up, the scraps go with us.
Who comes out and who does the work
I come out to look at the job myself and write the estimate, and a small crew and I do the work with me on site while it's done. I started this business in 2023 after years laying block and brick on new construction, because I'd rather work on homes people already live in. That means I'd rather fix the part that's failing than tear out good brick, and I'll tell you why we picked the mortar, block or stone we did. I want your yard left the way we found it, just without the problem. The work is backed by our satisfaction guarantee.