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Brick Repairs Across the Gold Coast
Gold Coast Pro Bricklayers carries out brick repairs across the Gold Coast, on cracked, damaged and failing brickwork in brick and in block.
Whether it’s a crack above a window, mortar gone soft on the weather side, or a fence wall a car has been into, every repair starts with working out what moved and why. Pointing over a live crack buys a season at most. Once the cause is dealt with, the damaged section gets rebuilt with the closest matching bricks available.
Where new bricks still read differently against forty-year-old ones, the wall is left ready for tinting so the repair stops drawing the eye. All brickwork is carried out under QBCC licence 15383405.
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Brick and Block Repairs We Carry Out
Crack Stitching
Stainless steel bars bedded across a crack, tying the brickwork back together so the wall carries load across the break.
Repointing
Failed mortar raked out and the joints repointed, which is what stops water getting in and taking the brickwork apart from the inside.
Damaged Wall Rebuilds
Sections rebuilt where the wall has come apart, been hit, or been stripped back in a makesafe, then laid in course by course.
Boundary and Fence Wall Repairs
Front fences and boundary walls repaired where footings have moved, piers have cracked or a vehicle has hit them.
Brick Matching and Tinting
A sourced match when the original brick has gone out of production, then the wall prepared for tinting to close whatever colour difference is left.
Blockwork Repairs
Cracked and failing blockwork repaired, cores refilled where needed, then left for your renderer or painter.
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What Changes the Price of a Brick Repair
Two cracks the same length price differently once the cause, the access and brick availability come into it.
What affects the cost of brick repairs on the Gold Coast:
| Repair | What changes the price |
|---|---|
| Cracked walls | Length and width of the cracking, what caused it, whether the movement has stopped, how many courses are affected |
| Repointing | Area of wall, how deep the mortar has failed, colour and mix matching, access and height |
| Damaged or impacted walls | Extent of the damage, whether propping is needed, availability of matching bricks, removal of the failed section |
| Boundary and fence walls | Length affected, pier and footing condition, whether the wall has to come down and go back up |
| Blockwork | Extent of the cracking, whether cores need refilling, render removal and reinstatement by others |
| Matching and tinting | Whether the original brick is still made, how far the colour has to be pulled together |
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Licensed Brickwork
Brick repairs are building work in Queensland once they go past minor patching, which puts them under a licensed contractor. All work is carried out under QBCC licence 15383405, listed on the public QBCC register.
- QBCC licensed, verifiable before any work starts
- Brick and block, stitching, repointing and rebuilds
- Matched bricks, closest available sourced on every repair
- Handed over, ready for tinting, render or paint
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does it cost to repair brickwork on the Gold Coast?
The cost of a brick repair on the Gold Coast is priced per job rather than at a flat rate, because the same crack can mean two very different repairs depending on what caused it. A section of repointing on a single-storey wall prices differently to a rebuild where the footing has to be dealt with first. The variables are set out above.
Can a cracked brick wall be repaired, or does it need rebuilding?
A cracked brick wall gets repaired rather than rebuilt in most cases, provided the movement behind it has stopped. Rebuilding becomes the answer when the wall has gone out of plumb, or when the bond has failed across a large enough area.
What is crack stitching?
Crack stitching repairs a cracked wall without taking it down. Once the bars are in and the joints are pointed up, the repair sits behind the face of the wall and is not visible from the footpath.
Can you match the bricks on my existing wall?
Yes, we match the bricks on an existing wall as closely as we can on every repair. If you have spare bricks from the original build stacked down the side of the house, say so at quoting stage, because they beat anything we can buy.
Do you do brick repairs for insurance claims?
Yes, we do brick repairs for insurance claims, both for insurance builders and for homeowners. Impact damage, fire damage and rebuilds after a makesafe are all completed to the scope issued. There is more on how that runs on our insurance brickwork repairs page.
Do you repair blockwork as well as brickwork?
Yes, we repair blockwork as well as brickwork. The difference is what sits inside it: block walls carry steel and concrete through the cores, so a repair has to make that good rather than just replace the face. Render over the top is put back by your renderer.
Why does brickwork crack?
Brickwork cracks because something underneath it has moved. Stepped cracking through the mortar joints points at footing movement, vertical cracking beside an opening means the wall is being pulled, and mortar that crumbles under a screwdriver has simply lost its cement content. Which one you have decides whether the repair is stitching, repointing or a rebuild.
Do you charge for a quote?
No, we don’t charge for quotes on repair work anywhere on the Gold Coast. Send photos of the cracking or damage first, then the repair scope and the price come back to you in writing before anything is booked in.
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How a Repair Runs
The following are the steps to our quick and easy process:
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Step 1: Send photos
Send your suburb and a couple of photos of the cracking or damage. Photos tell us a lot before anyone comes out.
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Step 2: On-site look
A licensed bricklayer looks at the wall, works out what moved and checks brick availability.
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Step 3: Quote and scope
You get the repair scope and the price in writing, including whether the wall needs stitching, repointing or rebuilding.
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Step 4: Repair and handover
The repair is carried out and cleaned down, then handed back ready for tinting, render or paint.
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Related Services
Repairs are carried out right across the Gold Coast, with a good share of the work through the northern corridor: Helensvale, Coomera, Oxenford, Coombabah, Maudsland and Parkwood, along with Southport and the suburbs south of it.
Repairs sit alongside the rest of the brickwork we carry out across the Gold Coast.
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