Masonry waterproofing in Sand Springs, OK
Tulsa County · ZIP 74063 · Published pricing · Call (918) 362-4398
Sand Springs learned about water in May 2019. When the Corps opened the Keystone Dam gates at the rate the river was coming in, Town and Country and Riverside West went under, and the damage in Sand Springs alone ran past thirty million dollars. Brick and block walls that stood in that water for a week are still shedding salt seven years later. Efflorescence on the bottom courses, mortar that went soft and sandy, and a musty cavity behind the veneer are what we find on those streets.
The housing here is older than Broken Arrow too. Charles Page built the town for his mill workers in the 1910s and 1920s, and the neighborhoods off Charles Page Boulevard are brick bungalows and block houses from the 1920s through the 1960s, many with the only true basements and half cellars in the west metro. Haikey Creek Masonry Waterproofing repoints those walls with a mortar that matches the original at $1,200 to $5,500, cleans and seals flood salted brick at $800 to $2,500 per elevation, and prices the block cellar walls off the same table.
Anything in the flood footprint gets an honest conversation first. If the cavity behind the brick is still wet from ground water rather than rain, the fix is drainage along that wall, $6,000 to $15,000 per side, and no amount of sealer changes that. We would rather say so on the first visit than sell a sealing job that fails in one spring.
What the 2019 flood did to Sand Springs brick
Flood damaged brick in Sand Springs often looks fine from the street and fails from the inside. The mortar in the bottom courses absorbed river water, the salts crystallized as it dried, and the joints turned to sand behind an intact face. Push a screwdriver into a bottom course joint. If it goes in more than a quarter inch, that wall needs repointing before it needs anything else.
Sand Springs and the west bank
Regular stops include Town and Country, Riverside West, Prattville, downtown Sand Springs, Case Community Park, the Keystone Expressway corridor, Wekiwa, the older streets near Charles Page Boulevard. 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 straight price for a flood affected wall
Address in Sand Springs first, then what you see. The range comes off the published table and we set a time for the hose test.
Sand Springs owners ask
- Our house flooded in 2019 and the brick still has white stains. Can they be removed?
- Yes, once the wall is dry inside. Efflorescence cleaning and sealing runs $800 to $2,500 per elevation. If the stains keep returning after cleaning, the cavity is still wet from the ground, and that is a drainage job we price separately.
- How much does it cost to repoint an old brick house in Sand Springs?
- A 1920s bungalow near Charles Page Boulevard usually runs $1,500 to $4,000 to repoint the walls that need it, with a full four side job toward $5,500. We use a softer mortar on those houses so the old brick does not shear.
- Can you waterproof a block cellar wall?
- Yes. Block cellar walls in the older Sand Springs houses get repointed, parged and coated from the inside, priced by the linear foot off our repointing and drainage rows. Exterior excavation is the last resort, not the first.
- Is it worth sealing brick that might flood again?
- A penetrating repellent will not stop floodwater, but it does keep rain and splash out of the wall in a normal year and makes flood salts easier to clean afterward. We will tell you plainly if your wall needs drainage or repointing before it is worth sealing.
- Do you serve Prattville and the Wekiwa side?
- Yes. All of Sand Springs, including the hill neighborhoods west of downtown and the lake side, is on our regular route.