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Serving Green Bay, WI and surrounding areas. (920) 932-4097
Green Bay Concrete & Masonry provides masonry contractor services throughout Ashwaubenon, WI, including brick repair, foundation repair, and concrete driveway work. We have served the greater Green Bay area since 2018 and reply within 1 business day.
Ashwaubenon homes from the 1950s and 1960s often have brick accents on the front facade that have been through 60 or more Wisconsin freeze-thaw cycles. Spalling faces, loose bricks, and crumbling mortar joints are common on these homes, and brick repair stops the damage from spreading before water gets behind the wall.
Nearly every home in Ashwaubenon has a concrete driveway, and many of those driveways are 30 to 50 years old. Repeated freeze-thaw cycles crack slabs and cause surface spalling - patching and resurfacing can extend the life of a driveway that is structurally sound but showing surface wear.
Ranch and split-level homes built in postwar Ashwaubenon sit on foundations that have been absorbing freeze-thaw pressure for decades. Horizontal cracks in block walls and stair-step cracks in poured foundations are both signs that the soil pressure has reached a point where repair cannot wait.
Older Ashwaubenon homes with wood-burning fireplaces often have chimneys where the mortar cap has been cracking for years without anyone noticing. Once water gets in, the freeze-thaw cycle accelerates the damage every winter - chimney repointing and cap replacement stop that cycle before it reaches the firebox.
The brick accent walls common on postwar Ashwaubenon homes have mortar joints that weather faster than the bricks themselves. Receding or crumbled joints create channels for water to enter the wall cavity, which leads to bigger problems each year the repair is delayed.
Concrete front stoops and sidewalks in Ashwaubenon heave and crack every few years as frost pushes up from below. Resetting settled sections, filling joints, and repairing cracked concrete steps prevents trip hazards and keeps the front of the house looking maintained.
Ashwaubenon's housing stock was built primarily between the 1950s and 1980s, during a postwar suburban boom that filled the village with ranch and split-level homes. Those homes are now 40 to 70 years old, and they have been through thousands of freeze-thaw cycles. The ground in this part of Wisconsin freezes three to four feet deep in a hard winter, and each spring thaw puts lateral pressure on foundations, pushes up concrete slabs, and opens cracks in mortar joints. On a 1960s ranch home with an original concrete driveway, that kind of seasonal stress has been adding up for a long time.
The village also has its own building code and permit requirements, separate from the City of Green Bay. Ashwaubenon is an incorporated village with its own government, and structural masonry work here requires permits pulled through the village - not the city. A contractor who works regularly in Ashwaubenon knows the local process and handles that paperwork as part of the job. Beyond permits, the mix of homeowners and rental properties near the commercial corridors along Oneida Street means masonry contractors here work on both residential and light commercial properties regularly.
Our crew works throughout Ashwaubenon regularly, and we understand the local conditions that affect masonry contractor work here. The village has its own permit office and building department, and we pull our permits through the Village of Ashwaubenon directly for any structural work that requires one.
Ashwaubenon sits just west of Green Bay along the western edge of the metro area. Oneida Street runs north-south through the heart of the village, lined with commercial development all the way up to Lambeau Field. Most of the residential neighborhoods are tucked behind and west of that commercial corridor - streets of ranch homes and split-levels on modest lots with mature trees. The neighborhoods near Lambeau Field have heavy game-day traffic several times a year, but the residential streets themselves are quiet and well-established.
We also serve the communities adjacent to Ashwaubenon. Allouez sits to the southeast and has similar housing ages and freeze-thaw challenges. Homeowners in Green Bay to the east are also part of our regular service area, and crews moving between Ashwaubenon and Green Bay jobs is a routine part of our weekly schedule.
Reach out by phone or through our contact form and we will respond within 1 business day. We will ask a few questions about what you are seeing so we arrive with the right materials and equipment.
A member of our crew will come out, look at the damage in person, and explain what they find in plain language. You will get a written estimate with the full scope and cost before we start - no pressure, no same-day decision required.
If the job requires a Village of Ashwaubenon permit - structural foundation work and certain masonry projects do - we handle that paperwork. We will schedule the work around your availability and give you a realistic start date.
We do the work, clean up before we leave, and walk you through what was done. If there are any follow-up steps or curing time to observe, we explain that before we go.
We serve Ashwaubenon homeowners with written estimates, no-pressure assessments, and work scheduled around your availability. Call or send us a message and we will respond within 1 business day.
(920) 932-4097Ashwaubenon is a village of about 17,000 people that sits directly west of Green Bay along the west bank of the Fox River corridor. The village is its own incorporated municipality, separate from the City of Green Bay despite sharing a continuous built environment with it. Most residents live in ranch and split-level homes built during the postwar decades, clustered in quiet residential streets west of the Oneida Street commercial corridor. The village is best known outside Wisconsin for being the home of Lambeau Field, the historic stadium of the Green Bay Packers, which sits inside Ashwaubenon's village limits along Lombardi Avenue.
The residential character of Ashwaubenon is solidly middle-class and owner-occupied. Roughly 60 to 65 percent of housing units are owner-occupied, and the village has had a stable population for several decades - which means the housing stock ages in place. A home built here in 1965 has had the same concrete driveway, the same block foundation, and the same brick accent wall for 60 Wisconsin winters. Bay Park Square mall along Oneida Street has been a regional shopping anchor for decades, and the commercial strip running south toward De Pere is familiar to every household in the area. The neighborhoods behind that corridor are the places where Ashwaubenon homeowners actually live - and where masonry maintenance adds up over time.
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Learn MoreFreeze-thaw damage does not fix itself, and another Wisconsin winter will make the problem bigger. Reach out now for a written estimate with no obligation.