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Brick foundation repair starts by identifying whether mortar, brick, drainage or wall movement has failed. Learn how Toronto homeowners can scope the right repair.

Fresh parging can feel hard before it has developed useful strength. Weather, coat thickness and moisture control decide when the wall is ready for its next step.

Every opening in a masonry wall interrupts the load above it. A lintel bridges that gap, but its material and condition decide how the wall behaves.

Width is the thing everyone measures and the least useful signal. Direction, location and whether it is still moving tell you far more.

The decision usually gets made on appearance and then regretted on budget. Install labour, not material price, is what separates the two.

The pitch is simple and appealing. Coat the wall and keep water out. On a masonry wall that is not how water behaves, and the coating usually makes it worse.

Homeowners fill them thinking the mason missed a joint. Contractors fill them to tidy a wall. Both create the problem the openings existed to prevent.

The square foot rate is the easy part of a parging quote. Removal of the old coat is what separates a $600 job from a $2,500 one on the same house.