Hiring a facade contractor in NYC
Facade work in New York usually starts with a document: a FISP report listing SWARMP or Unsafe conditions, a violation, or a letter from an engineer. The owner then has to hire a facade restoration contractor who can execute a scope somebody else wrote, on a deadline the DOB set, without the price wandering once the shed is already up.
That is a different job from general repair work. A commercial facade contractor has to read the QEWI's conditions list accurately, price each condition separately, and document the fix in a form the engineer will accept at sign-off. We bid facade repair NYC scopes that way deliberately — condition by condition — so nothing is assumed at the start and nothing is discovered at the end.
What we handle
Local Law 11 / FISP Repairs
Every condition on the report — repointing, brick replacement, lintel and shelf-angle work, parapet rebuilds, crack repair, sealant replacement — executed and documented so your QEWI can close out the cycle.
Building Facade Repair
Building facade repair outside a compliance cycle: leaking window heads and sills, spalled brick over an entrance, failing sealant joints, damaged cornices, displaced coping and water-stained elevations.
Mixed-Material Facades
Most NYC buildings are more than one material. Brick, stone, stucco, concrete and metal meet at details that leak, and we restore all of them with our own crews instead of coordinating three subcontractors across one joint.
Access, Sheds & Scaffolding
Swing stage, pipe scaffold or sidewalk shed — access is often the single largest line on a facade job. We price it up front and work the schedule so the shed comes down on time instead of billing month after month.
Recent NYC projects
How we scope and bid facade restoration
We start from the documents you already have — the FISP report, prior scopes, photographs and any engineer correspondence — then perform a hands-on assessment at height. Conditions get confirmed one by one, and anything the report understated gets flagged before it turns into a change order in month four.
The proposal maps to the conditions list item for item: each condition priced, each marked required or recommended, with access, permits and shed rental broken out separately. A board can approve the required scope immediately and phase the remainder across budget years.
During the work the building gets weekly progress photos and the managing agent gets the paperwork as it is generated. At completion you receive a close-out package your engineer can file against — photographs, materials used, permit sign-offs, and our written workmanship warranty.
What NYC building owners say
FISP report in hand? Send it over.
Free facade assessment and a condition-by-condition price across all four boroughs.
What to expect, from first call to sign-off
Facade projects run for months and touch every resident in the building. The schedule matters as much as the masonry.
We are the contractor, not the inspector — DOB rules keep a single firm from filling both roles — so we work alongside your QEWI rather than replacing them, and everything we install is documented for their sign-off.
Frequently Asked Questions
One contractor for the whole envelope.
Masonry, stucco, stone and roofing under one license means your facade repair does not stall at the seam between two trades.
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