Ken

I have a two car garage which has a central pillar between the two garage doors. This pillar was damaged before I bought my house years ago and last year I noticed additional damage to the exterior brick and mortar and the interior concrete base of that pillar. I had also decided to get some new garage doors to replace my original doors, but I needed to get the pillar repaired first. I did a lot of research on masonry and contracting companies that might be able to complete this work, and after a lot of frustration in not being able to find a trustworthy and skilled company to do these repairs, I finally contacted Integrity Masonry and they were like a breath of fresh air. Nick came and saw the work that needed to be done and he took the time to answer all my questions. It was clear to me that he knew what he was talking about when it came to masonry. At that point, it was late in the masonry season in 2021, so I had to book the work for early the next Spring, but it was definitely worth the wait. (Red Seal Mason) Tessa led a team that completed the work at my place. She explained all the work that was being done and she completed the primary work herself, while also closely supervising the other masons / workers on her team. She also came back later, after I had my new garage doors installed, to touch up some of the parging. Tessa and her team were complete professionals and I fully recommend Integrity Masonry. We are completely satisfied with all the work that they did (rebuilding my garage pillar's masonry, re-pointing the mortar and replacing several bricks elsewhere on my garage's exterior, re-doing some of my parging and installing a new limestone threshold for our front door). When I hire contractors two things are important to me: are they qualified to do the work professionally and do I trust them. Integrity Masonry checked both boxes for me.

We have a large maple tree in our front yard which had never been professionally pruned and which looked to me to be very full and healthy, but it did darken the front rooms in our house a fair bit. After seeing the beating that it took during the recent June 2022 Ottawa wind storms (still standing, but it got some exercise during that storm) we decided that it was time to get it pruned and thinned out a bit. I called a few companies and Lynn came to give me an estimate for Campbell. They weren't the lowest bid (although still reasonable), but I was impressed with her knowledge as a qualified arborist and with what she said our tree needed in order to be healthy going forward. So, we decided to accept her quote. At first, it looked like we might not get the work done until mid-summer because of the work backlog that the Ottawa storm had created for them, but she contacted me 2-3 weeks later and said they'd be there the next day. They sent a team of three workers to do the job and they were finished in a few hours with no damage to our garden under the tree and a full cleanup afterwards. As healthy as I thought it was before the work, our tree looks much better now with a lot more space for light and air to reach the inner section of the tree, our garden and our house. We are completely satisfied with the result !