The masonry company the county’s brick was waiting for.
Murfreesboro Masonry Co. is a brick and stone contractor based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, serving Rutherford County and its neighbors: tuckpointing and brick repair, chimneys, mailboxes, retaining walls, outdoor masonry, and lime-mortar restoration on pre-war brick. That sentence is the whole business. The rest of this page is why it needed to exist.
Rutherford County lays more brick than almost anywhere in Tennessee, three thousand-plus permits a year of new veneer and mailboxes, on top of a 1990s building wave whose mortar is failing street by street, right on schedule. That much brick deserves a shop that answers the phone on the first ring, shows up when it says it will, and quotes a firm number instead of one that grows once the truck is parked in your driveway. That is the gap Murfreesboro Masonry Co. exists to close.
Two habits we will not break
First, the prices are published. The cost page is the table we quote from, and the invoice matches it. Leaving a number vague until a crew is standing in your yard wastes your afternoon and ours, so we would rather answer your first question before you ask it.
Second, the mortar gets matched before the job starts. Color, tinted in test batches against a cleaned joint. Hardness, matched to the brick, which on pre-war walls means lime-based mortar rather than modern mix. A repair that reads as a patch from the street, or that outmuscles the brick it touches, is a failed repair no matter how straight the courses are.
What does a masonry company in Murfreesboro actually do?
Six trades under one roof, all of them brick or stone. Tuckpointing and brick repair on the 1990s veneer that is failing across the county, steel lintel swaps over garage doors, chimney crowns and stack repointing, brick mailbox rebuilds to HOA spec, retaining walls and entry columns, and lime-mortar restoration on the pre-war brick in Eagleville and on the Woodbury square. A masonry company is not a general contractor: we do not frame, roof, or plumb, and we say so when a job needs those trades first. Every one of the six has a line on the published price table, from a $400 step repair to a $15,000 outdoor fireplace.
Who does the work when you hire this masonry company?
The mason who quotes your wall is the one who lays it. Rutherford County has plenty of masonry companies that broker the labor to whichever crew is free that week, and the homeowner finds out on the morning the truck arrives. We put the name on the quote instead. The question is a good one to ask anyone, and our guide to whether a masonry company is subbing your job out covers what the answer tells you and whose license and insurance should cover the job.
How is a local masonry company different from a Nashville crew?
Mobilization, and the small job. A crew dispatching from Nashville has forty minutes of interstate inside every quote, so the $500 chimney crown and the $700 step repair are the jobs it declines or pads. A company based in Murfreesboro batches those calls by neighborhood, which is why the small work on our table is priced like small work. It also means the mason has seen your subdivision’s brick before, probably on your neighbor’s house, and knows which salvage yard still has the discontinued blend.
The honest fine print
Tennessee requires a contractor license for projects at $25,000 and over; nearly all residential masonry repair sits under that threshold, and when a scope crosses it we work under the proper license and put that in the quote. Retaining walls over four feet get engineered designs regardless. We carry liability insurance on every job and will send the certificate before the first course, not after you ask twice.
Want to talk through a wall? Call (615) 558-8640 or start at the homepage and use the quote form. The service area pages cover what we do town by town, from La Vergne veneer to the Woodbury square.