Masonry Contractor in Homewood, AL - Brick Repair That Matches Your House

Homewood's residential building permit, issued by the city's Inspections & Permitting office, covers driveways, fences, additions, renovations, accessory structures, landscaping and waterproofing, so several common masonry jobs are on that list. The city's residential permit application doesn't name every masonry repair, so before we start we check with the city about your job, and when a permit is required we handle it with them. You can also reach the office at 205-332-6800.

The city's permit fee is $9.50 for every $1,000 of project cost, rounded up to the nearest $1000, with a $100 minimum. That means even a small permitted job carries at least the $100 fee, and the fee grows with the price of the work. The masonry price itself turns on the things we covered above, which is why we price it in person at your house.

Alabama requires a yearly license from the Home Builders Licensure Board for paid building or repair work on a home of up to three floors and four units once the job costs over $10,000, or over $2,500 for roofing. You can still do that work on your own house, but under the board's rules for homeowners acting as their own contractor, you stop counting as your own contractor once you pay someone to supervise, and any sub whose part runs over $10,000.00 must be licensed. Homewood also requires a city business license before anyone does business in the city, and the City Clerk's office takes questions at 205-332-6111. We're licensed and insured.

When a permitted job in Homewood disturbs dirt, the city's permit procedures call for erosion control. On lots under an acre, the application includes a plat from a credentialed storm water professional showing how water flows, where the controls go and where the house sits, and on an acre or more the Alabama Department of Environmental Management issues the erosion permit and the city wants a copy first. On our side, we keep dug soil contained and off the street, and we plan where the water goes before a wall goes up.

Call the city's Street Department at 332-6816 before a driveway is tied into any city street, because the city's permit procedures require that contact first. Driveways are also on the residential permit list, so we check both with the city before we break out the old apron, the strip where your drive meets the street.

You can search your address on AlabamaFlood, the state's source for regulatory FEMA floodplain data, which the state explains on its floodplain lookup page. It's worth a look before a foundation, retaining wall or drainage job, so you know how your lot sits on the map before we plan where the water goes.