Onondaga County
Masonry Contractors in Camillus: Village and Town Are Not the Same
Which side of the village line you are on decides which inspection your house actually needs. Camillus village is 32.2 percent pre-1940 and the town around it is 6.1 percent, a fivefold split inside one name, so a soft mortar answer and an openings answer live two miles apart.
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Camillus village, Fairmount, and two different inspections
Camillus village runs one code enforcement counter and the Town of Camillus runs another, and that matters more here than anywhere else in the metro because the two are not the same housing at all. The village's 771 units have a median build year of 1958 and a 32.2 percent pre-1940 share. The town's 11,481 units have a median of 1966 and a 6.1 percent pre-1940 share, so the village is more than five times as prewar as the town wrapped around it. Fairmount, the largest Census place inside the town, has 4,569 units, a median of 1961, just 5.0 percent pre-1940 and 38.9 percent built in the 1950s alone, with 42.7 percent falling in the 1940 to 1959 window. Read that as two jobs sharing one trade name. In the village the mortar hardness question decides whether the brick is still there in twenty winters. In Fairmount and the wider town the steel over the windows, doors and garage openings is what to look at, because those are the decades when a bare angle was standard and galvanizing was not. On that side of the town the question to ask about any opening repair is what goes over the new steel: the brick industry specifies continuous flashing over the angle, between the steel and the outer masonry, with weepholes in the facing at lintel level so trapped water can leave. New steel and new brick with no flashing and no way out will corrode on exactly the same schedule as the last one did.
Areas within Camillus: Fairmount
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What we cover in Camillus village and out in Fairmount
Repointing and Mortar Joint Repair
Find out whether crumbling or missing mortar needs the joints raked out and refilled, and which mortar type belongs on the brick you actually have.
Repointing in Camillus →Chimney Repair and Rebuilding
Work out whether a chimney needs its crown and top courses rebuilt, a rebuild from the roofline, or work at the footing, and what the state code requires either way.
Chimney Repair in Camillus →Lintel Repair and Opening Repairs
Tell a rusting steel lintel apart from settlement, so the crack above your window, door or garage opening gets the trade it actually needs.
Lintel Repair in Camillus →Brick and Stone Replacement
Understand why brick faces are flaking or popping off, which units have to be cut out and replaced, and what has to change so the new ones do not go the same way.
Brick Replacement in Camillus →Retaining Walls, Steps and Foundation Masonry
Establish whether a leaning retaining wall, crumbling brick steps or a failing block or stone foundation wall needs rebuilding, and what has to change underneath so it stays put.
Retaining Walls and Steps in Camillus →The fivefold Camillus split, out of one Census table
Camillus village has 771 housing units with a median year of construction of 1958 and a pre-1940 share of 32.2 percent. The Town of Camillus around it has 11,481 units, a median of 1966 and a pre-1940 share of 6.1 percent, so the village's prewar share is more than five times the town's. Fairmount, the largest census place inside the town, has 4,569 units, a median of 1961, a pre-1940 share of just 5.0 percent and 38.9 percent of its stock built in the 1950s alone.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25034 Year Structure Built and table B25035 Median Year Structure Built, accessed 2026-09-10
Ranked instead by the share of housing built between 1940 and 1959, the era in which steel angle lintels over openings became standard in brick and brick-veneer houses, the county orders itself completely differently: Galeville 60.7 percent, Seneca Knolls 58.9, Mattydale 54.6, Westvale 51.3, Lyncourt 47.1, Fairmount 42.7, North Syracuse village 38.5, Geddes town 37.1, Salina town 35.0, Solvay village 31.3, Camillus town 30.4, Liverpool village 27.1, Fayetteville village 26.8, East Syracuse village 26.4, DeWitt town 25.6, the City of Syracuse 23.3, Manlius town 22.3, Cicero town 19.7, Baldwinsville village 17.3, Marcellus town 15.1, Skaneateles village 13.1 and Clay town 12.8.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, table B25034 Year Structure Built and table B25035 Median Year Structure Built, accessed 2026-09-10
The same technical note states that proper consideration must always be given to moisture control wherever there are openings in masonry walls, and that there must always be a mechanism to channel the flow of water present in the wall to the outside. It specifies that even where galvanized or stainless steel angles are used for lintels in cavity and veneer walls, continuous flashing should be installed over the angle, placed between the steel and the exterior masonry facing material, to collect and divert moisture to the outside through weepholes. It adds that regardless of whether flashing is used, weepholes should be provided in the facing at the level of the lintel to permit the escape of accumulated moisture.
Source: Brick Industry Association, Technical Notes 31B, Structural Steel Lintels, accessed 2026-09-10
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