Masonry Installation in Hermitage

Hermitage is a community in eastern Davidson County along the Cumberland River, named after Andrew Jackson's historic plantation home nearby. It developed heavily in the 1960s through 1980s as a middle-class Nashville suburb and has a large stock of brick ranch homes from that era. It's a fully built-out community with stable, established neighborhoods and a homeowner base that's been in place long enough to notice when masonry starts failing. The Andrew Jackson Hermitage draws visitors and gives the area a historic identity, but most of the masonry work here is residential repair on aging mid-century homes.

Nashville sits on heavy clay soil that swells when it rains and shrinks when it dries out. That constant movement cracks foundations, shifts retaining walls, and pulls mortar joints apart — especially in older neighborhoods like Inglewood and East Nashville where houses were built in the 1940s and 1950s. When masonry fails here, water gets in fast, and the damage compounds every season.

We start by looking at what the soil and structure are actually doing before we touch a single brick. A lot of contractors skip that step and just patch what they can see — six months later you're calling someone else because the root problem is still there.