Dry-stacked & mortared masonry — central Ohio
We lay stone that outlives the house it leans on.
Third-generation masons working in Black Hand sandstone, bluestone and salvaged brick. Retaining walls, chimneys, patios, and restoration on houses older than the state.
- 34years laying stone
- 3generations
- 1crew, no subs
Price your wall before you call us.
Most masons won't give you a number until they've walked the site. Fair enough — but you deserve to know whether you're looking at four thousand dollars or forty before you spend a Saturday collecting quotes. Move the sliders.
How it's built
Length40 ft
Height3 ft 0 in
Dry-stacked
5 courses
Finished grade
- Face area
- 120square feet
- Stone
- 3.4tons delivered
- On site
- 4working days
- Estimate
- $9,900–13,200materials and labour
These are planning numbers, not a quote. What moves them most is what sits behind the wall: drainage, whether we're cutting into a slope, how far the stone has to be carried from the truck.
Recent work
Franklin, Delaware & Licking counties
- 2026 / 04
Dry-stacked retaining wall
WorthingtonNinety feet of Black Hand sandstone laid without mortar on a grade that had been washing into the neighbour's yard for six years. Drainage rebuilt behind the face with clean stone and a perforated line before a single course went down.
- 90 ft × 3 ft 6 in
- Black Hand sandstone
- 11 days
- 2025 / 09
Chimney rebuild, 1912 farmhouse
GranvilleTaken down to the roofline and rebuilt with salvaged brick from the original stack, soft lime mortar matched to what was there, and a new clay liner. The corbelling at the crown was reproduced by hand, course for course.
- Salvaged brick
- Lime mortar
- New clay liner
- 2025 / 06
Bluestone patio and steps
DublinFour hundred square feet of full-colour bluestone with fitted stone treads down to an existing terrace. Set on compacted base with a polymeric joint, no concrete.
- 400 sq ft
- Full-colour bluestone
- 6 days
What things run
Starting points, not quotes
Retaining walls
Dry-stacked or mortared, with the drainage done properly behind the face so it doesn't belly out in five winters.
from $95 / face ftChimneys & fireplaces
Repointing, rebuilds above and below the roofline, liners, caps and crown repair.
repointing from $1,200Patios & walkways
Bluestone, flagstone and brick on a compacted base. Cut and fitted on site, not trimmed to fit.
from $28 / sq ftHistoric restoration
Soft lime mortar matched to the original, salvaged material, detail reproduced by hand.
quoted per project
Where we work
Within about forty minutes of Worthington.
Named plainly, because it's the first thing you'll check and the thing that decides whether we're worth calling.
Columbus · Worthington · Dublin · Powell · Westerville · Hilliard · Upper Arlington · Delaware · Granville · Newark · Gahanna · New Albany
Farther out for restoration work — call and ask.
Send us the job.
A photo tells us more than a paragraph. If you ran the estimator above, tell us the numbers you landed on and we'll say straight away whether that's realistic.
614 555 1200