Melbourne Concrete & Masonry serves Titusville homeowners with brick repair, concrete block wall work, foundation repair, and masonry restoration for the city's mid-century and modern residential properties, with written estimates and responses within one business day.
Titusville homes from the Space Age era often have brick accents, chimneys, and entry walls that have been weathering salt air off the Indian River for 40 to 60 years. Spalling bricks and crumbling mortar are not just cosmetic problems - they allow water behind the masonry and accelerate damage to the structure underneath. Our brick repair work matches existing materials and mortar color so the repaired section blends with the original construction.
Concrete block construction is the standard for Titusville's mid-century housing, and many block walls in established neighborhoods are now showing age through cracked sections, displaced blocks, and eroded mortar. We repair existing walls and build new ones, properly footed and filled to handle Florida's wind load requirements and the humid conditions near the Indian River.
The flat, sandy terrain throughout Titusville drains poorly in low-lying neighborhoods, and the soil movement that follows Florida's heavy summer rains causes slab foundations to crack and shift. Homes near the Indian River face the added challenge of consistently high groundwater that wicks moisture upward through foundation slabs and block walls. Sticking doors, diagonal cracks above window corners, and uneven floors are the first signs to watch for.
Older stucco-coated concrete block homes in Titusville develop surface cracks, efflorescence, and delaminating sections as decades of humidity cycling take their toll. Restoration involves cleaning the surface, removing failed material, repairing the underlying block where needed, and applying a compatible new coating - not painting over the damage, which only delays and worsens the problem.
Titusville neighborhoods in low-lying zones along the Indian River and in flat inland areas can hold standing water after major afternoon thunderstorms, and yard drainage is a real issue for many homeowners here. A well-built retaining wall manages grade and redirects runoff before it reaches the foundation, reducing both soil erosion and moisture intrusion through hurricane season.
The proximity to Canaveral National Seashore means Titusville properties deal with salty coastal air that is harder on mortar joints than what you find further inland. Older brick and block structures throughout the city benefit from periodic tuckpointing - the process of cutting out failed mortar and packing in fresh material - which restores the wall seal and stops moisture from reaching the interior.
The bulk of Titusville's housing stock was built during the Space Age boom, from the late 1950s through the 1980s, when Kennedy Space Center drew thousands of workers to the area. These homes are now 40 to 70 years old, and the concrete block construction that was standard in Florida during that era comes with predictable maintenance issues as it ages. Stucco coatings crack and separate from the underlying block. Mortar joints erode and allow water in. Metal anchors and ties embedded in block walls corrode, especially on properties near the Indian River Lagoon where salt air is a daily presence. A contractor who works in Titusville regularly recognizes these patterns and knows what each type of deterioration calls for.
Titusville is also directly across the Indian River from Kennedy Space Center, and the waterfront and near-water properties along that corridor deal with conditions that accelerate exterior wear considerably. High year-round humidity - consistently above 70% for much of the year - means that moisture cycles through masonry surfaces faster than in drier climates. Summer afternoons bring heavy thunderstorms that can drop several inches of rain quickly, and the flat terrain in older neighborhoods means water sits against foundations and block walls for hours before it drains. These conditions make proactive masonry inspection and maintenance a sound investment for Titusville homeowners.
Our crew works throughout Titusville regularly, and we understand the local conditions that affect masonry contractor work here. Structural projects including new block walls, retaining walls, and foundation repairs go through the City of Titusville permitting process, and we handle all of that - applications, documentation, and inspection scheduling - so homeowners are not left managing a process they should not have to manage themselves.
From the established neighborhoods near downtown Titusville and Space View Park, where you can watch rocket launches from your front yard on the right day, to the newer subdivisions out near Interstate 95 and the La Cita area, the properties in this city are varied. The older downtown homes often have more accumulated maintenance needs. The newer western subdivisions tend to need less structural work but do have drainage and runoff issues from the flat terrain. U.S. Highway 1 runs through the heart of the city, and we travel it regularly between jobs throughout northern Brevard County.
Titusville sits at the northern end of the Space Coast corridor, and we serve the communities to the south as well. If you are near Cape Canaveral or looking for work across the river on Merritt Island - two communities where we work regularly - we can serve you under the same familiar set of local conditions and permit requirements.
Call us or submit the contact form and we will follow up within one business day. Describing what you are seeing - cracked bricks, a leaning block wall, stucco falling off - gives us enough context to come prepared for the visit.
We walk your Titusville property and assess the masonry in person. The written estimate covers all labor and materials, and we explain what we found and why we recommend what we do - including the cost - so there are no surprises later.
Once you approve the estimate, we book the job and show up when we said we would. Most brick repair and masonry work in Titusville finishes within one to four days. You do not need to be home for the work itself, but we reach out when we are done.
Before we leave, we walk you through the completed work and tell you what to watch for given the salt air and humidity conditions in Titusville. If anything related to the work needs attention after the job, call us and we come back.
We serve Titusville and all of northern Brevard County. Written estimates, no obligation, and we respond within one business day.
(321) 655-0856Titusville is a city of about 46,000 people on the west bank of the Indian River Lagoon in northern Brevard County, directly across the water from Kennedy Space Center. It is the county seat of Brevard County and one of the oldest cities on Florida's Space Coast. The homeownership rate is around 60%, with many residents who have owned their homes for years - a stable, working-class and middle-class community rather than a vacation or high-turnover market. The housing stock reflects decades of aerospace and defense employment, with most single-family homes built from the late 1950s through the 1980s in concrete block with stucco exteriors. Neighborhoods near downtown and along the river, including areas around Space View Park, tend to have older homes with more accumulated maintenance needs than the newer subdivisions on the western edge of the city.
Titusville borders the Canaveral National Seashore and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge to the east, giving the area a strong outdoor identity and ensuring that salt air and coastal humidity are constant factors for every homeowner in the city. To the south, Titusville connects to Cape Canaveral and Cocoa via U.S. Highway 1 and Interstate 95, both communities we serve and whose homeowners deal with the same set of Space Coast masonry challenges.
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Learn MoreCall Melbourne Concrete & Masonry for a free on-site estimate - we serve all of Titusville and northern Brevard County with same-week scheduling on most jobs.
