Mt. Lebanon's streetcar-suburb identity is built into its housing stock — Tudor, brick colonial, and stone-front homes from the 1920s-40s, most on sloped lots that have been holding their grade for a century. Our work here is heavy on stone-step rebuilds, retaining-wall replacement, masonry repointing, and the patio-and-walkway work that ties together the municipality's iconic front yards.
Custom walkways, driveways, and outdoor living spaces engineered for Pennsylvania's climate.
Concrete, flagstone, travertine, and interlocking paver patios with fire pits and seating walls.
Structural segmental block, boulder, and natural stone retaining walls — fully engineered.
Hand-set natural stone treads and precision-poured concrete stairs, stoops, and landings.
Poured foundations, slabs, brick and block work, repointing, and restoration.
Lower and excavate existing basements to unlock full-height living space below your home.
Mt. Lebanon was built on hillsides, and nearly every street in the municipality depends on retaining walls that have been holding their grade since the streetcar era. Many of those original cut-stone, cinder-block, and railroad-tie walls are now eighty to a hundred years old — and Western Pennsylvania's freeze-thaw cycles and heavy clay soil are winning. If your wall is leaning, bowing, cracking through the joints, or shedding blocks after wet winters, it isn't going to correct itself; hydrostatic pressure behind the wall only builds.
We replace failed walls with engineered systems built to modern standards: segmental block, boulder, and natural stone walls set on properly excavated, compacted aggregate bases, with geogrid reinforcement where height demands it. Every wall we build gets real drainage — clean stone backfill and perforated pipe — because in this climate, drainage is what separates a wall that lasts decades from one that fails in ten years.
Retaining walls above roughly four feet typically require a municipal permit and stamped engineering drawings in Mt. Lebanon. We handle the engineering coordination and the permit paperwork as part of the project, and many of our wall replacements pair naturally with the stone steps, walkways, and terraced front-yard work the neighborhood is known for.
Mt. Lebanon's Tudors, brick colonials, and stone-front homes from the 1920s–40s deserve masons who respect the original craft. We rebuild settled front stoops and stone steps with hand-set natural treads, repoint brick and stone with mortar matched to the era of the house, and restore chimneys and garden walls so the repair disappears into the original work. It's the stonework and brickwork this municipality was built with — done the same way, to last another century.
Usually, yes — walls above roughly four feet typically require a municipal permit and engineered drawings, and walls supporting driveways or structures can require them at lower heights. We confirm the requirements with the municipality and handle the permit and engineering coordination as part of every wall project.
It depends on height, length, site access, and material — a boulder wall on an open lot prices very differently from an engineered segmental wall on a tight streetcar-era street. We do a free on-site visit and give you a fixed written price, typically within 24 hours.
Cosmetic issues like failing joints on a structurally sound wall can often be repointed. But leaning, bowing, or stair-step cracking usually means the base or drainage has failed, and rebuilding is the honest answer — a patched wall with bad drainage fails again. We'll tell you which one you're looking at on-site, straight.
Yes. Repointing, chimney restoration, stone stoop and step rebuilds — with mortar color and joint profile matched to the original work so the repair blends into the house rather than standing out from it.
We understand Mt. Lebanon's terrain, soil conditions, and municipal requirements.
Full liability and workers' comp — zero exposure to the homeowner.
The owner is personally on-site to oversee quality on every project.
Every project backed by a written workmanship warranty.
