How to Hire a Mason

Video Transcript

"I'm Ryan Parker with Parker Home Renovations and today I'm going to teach you how to hire a mason. If you need any kind of brickwork around the house done, or rock work or anything like that, you may need to hire a mason. The first thing you want to do is go into the phone book and you want to pull out a list of names for masons in your area. Now what you want to do, is you want to make a list maybe, four or five names of different masons around your area and you want to call each one, and ask them things like: are they insured, are they licensed, what type of work they do. Try to find out, get a feel for their professionalism. And then you want to ask them for references. You want to contact all of these references, and ask the references what kind of work that mason did. Ask the references if it was possible if you could take a look at the work that he did at their site. Once you narrow the list done to one or two names, you want to get the mason to come out and look at your job, and give you a written estimate. Once you choose one of the estimates, then you'll ask the mason to fill out a contract for you, stating, the price of the project, the scope of work and the time frame he's going to get it done in. If you have any other questions you can contact me at Parker Home Renovations dot com."