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PMN Pomona Masonry has served Covina homeowners with brick repair, driveway pavers, tuckpointing, and retaining wall construction since 2017. Most Covina homes are 50 to 75 years old, and the clay soils and summer heat here are hard on masonry - we know those conditions well and respond within one business day.
Covina homes from the 1950s and 1960s commonly have brick planters, garden walls, and chimney stacks that have been through 60-plus years of San Gabriel Valley heat and the seasonal soil movement that comes with clay-heavy ground. Our brick repair service addresses spalled units, cracked courses, and loose or missing mortar joints before water infiltration turns a cosmetic problem into a structural one.
When brick on older Covina homes is still solid but the mortar joints are crumbling, tuckpointing is the cost-effective answer. We remove the deteriorated mortar and repoint the joints with fresh material matched to the existing color and profile - restoring the waterproof barrier without the cost and disruption of tearing out and replacing the masonry.
Most Covina single-family homes have original concrete driveways from the 1950s through 1970s that are cracked, sunken, or heaved from decades of clay soil movement. Paver surfaces on a properly compacted base perform better than a straight concrete replacement on Covina lots because individual units can flex slightly with minor soil shifts rather than cracking as a slab would.
Some Covina properties near the northern parts of the city have sloped yards with older retaining walls that have shifted as the clay soil expanded and contracted over time. A new masonry retaining wall with drainage correctly integrated addresses the root cause - poor drainage behind the wall - rather than just patching the visible cracks.
Covina homes on slab foundations built in the 1950s and 1960s sit on the same expansive clay that cracks driveways and shifts retaining walls. Sticking doors, uneven floors, and stair-step cracks in brick veneer or stucco are common early signs that the slab has moved and the foundation needs inspection and repair before the damage spreads further.
Older Covina neighborhoods have concrete walkways that have been lifted and cracked by tree roots - a common issue on streets where large trees were planted 40 or 50 years ago and have grown to push against every surface near them. Replacing those walkways and addressing the root path at the same time solves both the hazard and the cause.
Covina grew rapidly after World War II, and the bulk of its housing was built between the 1940s and 1970s. Those homes are now 50 to 80 years old - old enough that the original concrete flatwork, brick chimneys, and masonry walls are commonly reaching the end of their useful life without having ever been professionally repaired. The city has about 48,000 residents and sits in the eastern San Gabriel Valley along the 10 and 210 freeways. Most of its housing is single-family ranch style, owner-occupied, and built on slab foundations. Tree roots from mature trees planted when the neighborhoods were new are now a real issue for driveways, walkways, and underground drainage lines on older streets.
Expansive clay soils run throughout the San Gabriel Valley and Covina is no exception. These soils swell noticeably during winter rains and then shrink again through the summer drought, repeating a cycle of movement that gradually cracks concrete, pushes on foundations, and shifts retaining walls. Covina summers regularly push above 95 degrees, which accelerates mortar breakdown and dries out the soil faster - making the shrink phase more pronounced than it would be in a cooler climate. A masonry contractor who has not worked in this specific soil and climate context will not build or repair to the standard Covina properties actually need.
Our crew works throughout Covina regularly, and we understand the local conditions that affect masonry work here. Permits for structural masonry, retaining walls over 3 feet, and new fireplace or chimney work in Covina are handled through the City of Covina Building and Safety Division. We pull permits on every job that requires one and schedule inspections on behalf of the homeowner.
Covina is organized around Citrus Avenue through historic downtown, the 10 Freeway along the southern edge, and a network of older residential streets that extend north toward the foothills. The neighborhoods closest to Downtown Covina and Citrus Avenue tend to have the oldest homes and the most established tree canopy - which means more root intrusion in concrete and more deferred maintenance on brick and mortar features. The ranch-style tracts closer to the freeway corridors are slightly newer but are at the 40-to-50-year mark where concrete flatwork commonly needs full replacement. We serve homeowners across all of these neighborhoods, as well as in nearby San Dimas, which sits to the northwest with a similar postwar housing profile.
About 55 percent of Covina housing units are owner-occupied. Homeowners here have real equity to protect, and most are looking for a contractor who will give them a straight answer about what needs to be done and what can wait - not one who oversells. We write line-item estimates and explain the reasoning behind every scope decision.
Contact us by phone or through the form on this site. We respond within one business day and can usually get to Covina for a site visit within the same week.
We inspect the masonry in person, check the drainage and soil conditions that affect the scope, and provide a written, line-item estimate. No cost and no obligation to proceed.
We handle permits where required and complete all work with the crew and materials listed in the estimate. You do not need to be home for most masonry projects, though we can walk the site with you at any point.
The work area is cleaned and all debris removed before we close out the job. We walk the finished work with you and address any questions before leaving.
PMN Pomona Masonry serves all of Covina with free estimates and same-week scheduling. Call or message us today.
Covina is a city of about 48,000 people in the eastern San Gabriel Valley, roughly 22 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. It sits along the 10 Freeway in its southern sections and borders West Covina, Glendora, and Azusa. The city grew from a citrus-growing town - the name itself is said to derive from a word for a sheltered valley suited to growing - and older streets near the downtown still carry that history in their wide lots and mature tree canopy. The Covina Center for the Performing Arts on Citrus Avenue and the historic downtown corridor are the social center of the city and well-known to anyone who has lived here for more than a few years.
Most Covina housing is single-family ranch-style construction from the 1950s through 1970s, with stucco exteriors and slab-on-grade foundations standard across the city. The combination of that age of construction, the clay soils beneath it, and the mature trees on older streets creates a consistent pattern of concrete flatwork, brick repair, and drainage problems that we address regularly throughout the city. Neighboring West Covina to the west and San Dimas to the north share many of the same property characteristics, and we serve all three communities.
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Learn MoreFrom brick repair and tuckpointing to driveway pavers and retaining walls, PMN Pomona Masonry covers all of Covina. Call today and we will schedule a site visit within the week.