The Guy Rebuilding the Pink Wall Behind the Pink Wall and Why We Need Stucco with Fracking
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This is Joe Nech, owner of Advantage Masonry, a company that specializes in restoring brick, mortar, stone, anything made of masonry and the folks hired to re-build part of the crumbling “Pink Wall” that circles that cute neighborhood known as “Behind the Pink Wall”. He is only repairing the part in from of the Athena and Preston Tower. The rest, over by Averill Way, will still look like dirty old brick and make us all wonder why it’s called a “pink wall”.
Joe showed me that the brick was indeed once quite rosy, but elements, time and dirt have grayed the mortar and discolored the pink tones. When he was first called, the owners just wanted him to repair the wall (which was never built with re-bar, imagine that) but he suggested a complete overhaul of cleaning the brick and rebuilding a whole portion. You see, Joe is a brick man extraordinare and perfectionist.
“I once said, we could build a statute of Jesus out of brick,” says Joe, “then someone challenged me to it!”
If you want to know anything about brick, Joe is your go-to guy. I had to ask something: is stucco a masonry product? Yes, he said, it is. So then, I asked, why do some of these old neighborhood deed restrictions make such a doo-doo fuss about not letting folks build homes of stucco, especially those restrictions drafted in the fifties and sixties.
Joe told me that for some reason, people back then just loved brick and dislike stucco. Brick was in such high demand for awhile here that the brick factories like Acme could not keep up, which is why many Dallas homes were built with softer Mexican adobe bricks in the late fifties and early sixties.
In California, and other high earth-quake prone areas, bricks are prohibited as a building material because when a quake occurs, the brick could collapse and cause injury. Stucco is the material of choice out there. Maybe we need to look at it more closely too, here in Texas, what with all this fracking going on.
Also, did you know Italians invented the brick?
I grew up in Dallas and lived near the area where the Pink Wall is. It has always been a symbol of grace and fine neighborhoods and a fabulous land mark when giving directions! I hope it can all be resotred…
I grew up in Dallas and lived near the area where the Pink Wall is. It has always been a symbol of grace and fine neighborhoods and a fabulous land mark when giving directions! I hope it can all be resotred…
Preston Tower got the ball rolling on this. Not sure if in fact the Athena will do the same, but it would be a surefire boost to the neighborhood if other properties stepped up for the sagging Pink Wall. Glad to see the effort getting attention here.
Preston Tower got the ball rolling on this. Not sure if in fact the Athena will do the same, but it would be a surefire boost to the neighborhood if other properties stepped up for the sagging Pink Wall. Glad to see the effort getting attention here.
I was driving down the road after taking the kids to the park and was stunned that the section was gone. Glad to see it's going to be restored to it's former glamor and glory.
Cheryl, it is already back up! Advantage Masonry finished the job, including clean-up, in one week. Remarkable. We (Preston Tower) couldn't be happier with the outcome.
Cheryl, it is already back up! Advantage Masonry finished the job, including clean-up, in one week. Remarkable. We (Preston Tower) couldn't be happier with the outcome.
Cheryl, it is already back up! Advantage Masonry finished the job, including clean-up, in one week. Remarkable. We (Preston Tower) couldn't be happier with the outcome.
I was driving down the road after taking the kids to the park and was stunned that the section was gone. Glad to see it's going to be restored to it's former glamor and glory.
Cheryl, it is already back up! Advantage Masonry finished the job, including clean-up, in one week. Remarkable. We (Preston Tower) couldn't be happier with the outcome.
Cheryl, it is already back up! Advantage Masonry finished the job, including clean-up, in one week. Remarkable. We (Preston Tower) couldn't be happier with the outcome.
Cheryl, it is already back up! Advantage Masonry finished the job, including clean-up, in one week. Remarkable. We (Preston Tower) couldn't be happier with the outcome.
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[…] Halliday (who offices and lives across the street) christened it “behind the Pink Wall” because the area was fenced by a coral-y pink brick wall. The area has long been a favorite for singles, divorcees, and older folks leaving larger Preston […]
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