Clay Is Last in the County for Steel Lintel Housing
12.8 percent of Clay was built between 1940 and 1959, the lowest share in the county, so this is not the town's masonry problem.
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Why we do not sell lintel work in Clay
We have not written Clay a full lintel page, because the housing here does not support one. Clay sits last of the 22 places in the county's 1940 to 1959 ranking at 12.8 percent, against 60.7 percent at Galeville and 54.6 at Mattydale, and its median build year is 1978. Bare steel angles over openings belong to the postwar suburbs closer to the city. On a modern Clay veneer, a crack over a window is far more likely to be movement, a missing weephole, or water arriving where it should have drained away.
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What a crack over a Clay window usually is
Look for the drainage before you look for the steel. On a modern veneer the flashing over an opening and the weepholes above it are what keep water away from anything metal, and a filled or missing weephole is a far more common fault in this town than a corroded angle. If there is a rust stain bleeding from the top corner of the opening, or a course that no longer reads level, that changes the answer completely and it is worth telling us, because those two signs beat any county average.
Last in the county on this measure
On the 1940 to 1959 ranking Clay is last of the 22 places at 12.8 percent, with Cicero next at 19.7 and Skaneateles village at 13.1. Leading a Clay page with a steel lintel story would mean selling the postwar suburbs' problem to a town that largely does not have it.
A stain or a lifted course overrides the average
Only 3.2 percent of Clay was built before 1940 and 16.0 percent before 1960, the lowest figures in the county. But a brown stain from a top corner or a course out of level puts steel in play whatever the decade says, and that is worth saying when you write to us.
12.8 percent, and where that puts Clay in the county
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 Town of Clay has 26,282 housing units, the largest count of any town in Onondaga County, with a median year of construction of 1978. Only 3.2 percent were built in 1939 or earlier and only 16.0 percent in 1959 or earlier, the lowest figures in the county. The Radisson census place inside Clay has a median of 1990 and a pre-1940 share of 4.2 percent. The Town of Cicero has 13,584 units, a median of 1980, a pre-1940 share of 6.9 percent and a pre-1960 share of 26.6 percent.
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
Count the weepholes above the opening
Then send the Clay address and say how many you found. On a modern veneer that is the faster diagnosis.
The Clay work that does earn its own page
Openings: what Clay owners should ask instead
There is a crack over my Clay window. Where should I start?
With the course above the opening and the weepholes in it. On a house built since the late 1970s the flashing and the weepholes over an opening are what keep water away from any metal in the wall, so a missing or filled weephole explains more cracks here than corrosion does. Photograph the head of the opening and the course above it, and send it with the address. If there is a rust stain, say so, because that changes the answer.
Do you still do lintel work in Clay?
Yes. We have simply not written this town a page arguing that steel over the openings is its problem, because 12.8 percent of Clay dates from the decades when bare steel angles were standard and that is the lowest share in the county. Where a Clay house does have a corroding angle the work is the same as anywhere: establish how much section is left, then clean and recoat, or take the brick down and rebuild the opening properly.
Tell us what the course above your window is doing
A crack, a stain, a course out of line: describe it with the address and we will point you at the right work.