Masonry waterproofing in Dickson City, PA
Lackawanna County · ZIP 18519 · Published pricing · Call (570) 909-2820
Dickson City is two towns. The old borough along Main Street and Boulevard Avenue is coal-era stock like the rest of the Mid Valley, doubles and singles from 1890 to 1930 on rubble stone that has spent a century losing its mortar. The other Dickson City is the Business Route 6 strip, the county's biggest commercial corridor, with 1970s through 2000s block buildings, loading dock retaining walls, and dumpster pads that take salt and plow damage every winter. Anthracite Masonry Waterproofing works both, and ranks the borough sixth on our list because the commercial side adds volume the purely residential boroughs lack.
On the residential streets the work is familiar: interior repoint, parge and crystalline coating at $3,000 to $8,000 on a stone basement, repointing a weather wall at $10 to $25 per square foot, sealing brick with a breathable repellent at $2 to $5. The houses closest to the Lackawanna River and the Throop line take groundwater and need drain tile.
On the corridor the calls are block walls with efflorescence and horizontal cracks, loading dock walls that have started to lean, and retail basements with water at the slab. Block does not get injected, it gets a rebuilt cove, parge and coating, and drain tile when the cores are filling from below. Commercial owners get the same published prices as homeowners.
The bottom two feet on Route 6
Salt is the corridor problem. Years of de-icer splash off the parking lots eats the bottom two feet of block and brick on every building along Route 6, and a repellent applied after repointing that zone is the difference between a five year repair and a fifteen year one.
Dickson City coverage, borough and corridor
Regular stops include Main Street, Boulevard Avenue, the Business Route 6 corridor, Eagle Lane, the Viewmont side, Carmalt Street, the Throop line. If your wall is near those, a crew has probably already worked your street, and the price is the same table as everywhere else: the cost guide.
Get a Dickson City price, home or commercial
Address in Dickson City first, then what you see. The range comes off the published table and we set a time for the hose test.
Dickson City questions
- Do you do commercial block wall repair on the Route 6 corridor?
- Yes. Block walls get a rebuilt cove, parge coat and crystalline coating, and leaning dock walls get measured and priced separately. Same published table as residential work.
- What does it cost to waterproof a stone basement in Dickson City?
- $3,000 to $8,000 for interior rake, repoint, parge and coating. Houses near the river or the Throop line usually add drain tile at $4,500 to $12,000.
- Can salt damage on a block wall be repaired?
- Yes. Spalled block faces get cut back and patched, the joints repointed, and the bottom courses treated with a penetrating repellent that resists chloride. Doing the repellent is what stops it coming back.
- Do you seal brick in Dickson City?
- Yes, $2 to $5 per square foot with a silane/siloxane product, after any open joints are repointed and cured.
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