Brick wall installation in Redlands CA - a wall that stands straight on solid ground
Bare property line or a yard that needs closing in? We build a brick wall that fits your lot and sits on a real footing.
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What goes into building a brick wall in Redlands?
Brick wall installation means building a new brick wall in Redlands, CA, with or without mortar, as a garden wall, a fence along a property line or part of the house. Prestige Redlands Concrete and Masonry builds them here and in the cities around it, and every one starts below ground with the footing.
Most people who call about a brick wall already have a spot in mind, whether that's closing in the backyard, marking a property line or running a low wall along the front walk. The price moves with the wall's length and height, how much digging the footing takes, the brick and cap you pick and how easy it is to get a crew and materials to the spot. The schedule turns mostly on choosing the brick and on any paperwork the job needs. If you'd rather have a stucco or block look, concrete block walls are the other way to go, and the written estimate spells out what we'd build and what we'd use either way.
How do you know your yard needs a brick wall?
Wood fence starting to lean
The posts rot where they meet the ground, and the fence tips a little further every windy season. By then the posts are usually done, and patching one panel at a time keeps costing you without fixing much.
Old garden wall cracking apart
A stair-step crack or a lean usually means the old wall sat on a shallow footing or loose fill, and waiting just lets it tip further. If the wall is still sound, brick repair may be all it needs, and I'll tell you so.
Yard open to the street
No wall means no privacy, and the dog treats the gap as a standing invitation. Waiting doesn't cost much beyond another season of chasing the dog down the block.
How we handle brick wall installation
We start by marking where the wall runs, then dig the footing down into untouched ground, because fill dirt settles and takes the brick with it. The footing goes in, the brick goes up course by course, and every joint gets filled full. That covers the head joints between bricks, the bed joints under them and the collar joint, the gap between the two layers of a thicker wall. It's the part nobody sees and everybody pays for later, since a half-filled joint makes a nice little tank for water. If you want reclaimed brick, we check it before we agree to use it. Then we set the cap, clean the face and haul off the dirt, so your yard looks like we were never there, apart from the wall.
Plenty of brick walls get a little stone, in the cap or a pair of columns, and our stone masonry work ties into new brick cleanly. Years down the road, when the mortar on an older wall wears thin, brick pointing fixes the joints without tearing the wall down. I'd rather leave a sound joint alone than charge you to redo it.
Freestanding brick garden wall
This suits a yard wall or fence line where you see both faces. The brick runs through the full thickness, so it looks finished from either side.
Brick face over concrete block
This suits a longer wall where you want brick on the side you look at. Brick expands a little as it ages while block shrinks, so we plan the wall around that movement.
Thin brick on a house wall
This suits a framed wall on the house that you'd like to look like brick. Thin brick is adhered to the wall and held up by the framing, so the footing and foundation stay as they are.
A cap that sets the look
The cap on top changes how a garden wall looks more than most people expect. Natural stone, cast stone, slate, terra cotta, metal and brick all work, so pick the one that suits your yard.
Get a written estimate for your brick wall
Send where the wall goes, its rough length and height, and any corner or slope. We reply within one business day to set my visit, and the written estimate is free, with no obligation.
(909) 488-7148- Based in
- Redlands, CA 92373
- Hours
- Mon–Fri: 8 AM–10 PM, Sat–Sun: 6 AM–9 PM
What happens after you call about a brick wall in Redlands?
Here's how a brick wall job runs from your first call to the final walk, and who you'll be dealing with at each step.
Call or send a message
Phone us or use the form and tell us roughly where the wall should go. We set a time for me to come out and see it.
I walk the wall line
I look at where the wall will run, what's around it and where the water goes. Then you get a written estimate that says what we'd build and what we'd use, so you see how length, height and brick choice add up before you decide anything.
Our crew builds the wall
If you go ahead, we take care of any permit the job needs before we dig. I'm on site while the crew sets the footing and lays the brick.
We walk it together
Once the cap is on and the face is cleaned, you and I walk the finished wall. The dirt and leftover brick leave with us.
Why Redlands homeowners call Prestige Redlands Concrete and Masonry for brick walls
The owner comes out himself
I come out and look at the job myself, and I'm on site with the crew while they build. The person who wrote your estimate is the one watching the footing go in.
Trained by an old-school mason
I framed houses for years, then learned brick next to an old mason who wouldn't let a bad joint slide. We've been in business since 2021, five years now, and that habit came along.
Licensed and insured for wall work
We're licensed and insured. Before anybody digs a footing trench across your yard, that's the first thing worth knowing about them.
If you've got a spot picked out, send us the details or call (909) 488-7148 and I'll come take a look. Your satisfaction, guaranteed.
Brick walls and the lots they sit on in Redlands
On a corner lot, where the wall goes can matter more than how tall it is. The city allows no fence or wall, and no landscaping that blocks the view, inside the corner cutoff areas its code marks out. So at the estimate we lay the wall line out around those areas with you before anything gets priced, and on questions about your own lot, the city has the final word.
Hillside lots have a rule of their own. Where the top of a slope is the property line between two owners, the city requires a six-foot fence or wall along it, and a brick wall is one way to meet that. On a slope I spend more of the visit on where the water runs and how deep we have to go to reach untouched ground, and we see the same kind of sloped yards on jobs in Yucaipa and Calimesa.
Questions about brick walls in Redlands
How tall can a brick wall be in Redlands?
Under the city's zoning code, a wall can be up to six feet tall along side and rear property lines and no more than three feet in any required front yard area. The spot you pick sets the height, so we plan the wall around it at the estimate.
How much does a brick wall cost in Redlands?
A brick wall's cost comes down to its length and height, the footing, the brick and the cap. A brick face over block, standard new brick and a brick cap usually keep the number down, while a slope, a long carry from the street or an old fence to tear out push it up. I put your number in a written estimate after I've walked the spot.
Can I use reclaimed brick for a garden wall?
You can if it meets the SW requirements, the grade for brick that faces severe weather, which is what brick industry guidance asks of used or salvaged brick in a garden wall. Used brick often falls short because it was unevenly fired, so I look over any reclaimed brick before we agree to build with it.
What is the best way to set a footing for a brick garden wall?
Brick industry guidance puts a garden wall's foundation in undisturbed earth below the frost line, built of brick or concrete. It also calls for reinforcing the footing where needed in active soil that swells and shrinks with water, and it's why ours always goes into untouched ground.
Who licenses masonry wall contractors in California?
The Contractors State License Board does, and its masonry classification covers building masonry walls for structures and fences, load bearing or not, with or without mortar. That takes in a brick garden wall, a brick fence and a brick wall that's part of a house.
What causes white powder on a new brick wall?
On a new wall it's usually new building bloom, a white haze that tends to show up shortly after construction as the wall dries out normally. If it keeps coming back after that, water is likely getting into the wall and staying there, and that's worth having someone look at.
Other masonry work that goes with a wall
Stone masonry
If you want natural stone for a wall cap, a pair of columns or a whole section of the yard, our stone work sits right alongside new brick.
Brick pointing
When mortar on an older brick wall turns soft or sandy, pointing digs out the worn joints and refills them while leaving sound mortar alone.
Cities where we build brick walls
Prestige Redlands Concrete and Masonry is based in Redlands, California, and builds brick walls in the 12 cities with pages here, including Highland and Riverside. They aren't the only places we work, so if yours isn't listed, give us a call.
Redlands, CA
Call before the old fence comes down
If an old fence is coming out first, I'd like to see where the posts sat and what the ground looks like before anyone pulls them.