Stone restoration · Bucks County, Pa.
Luciano and Alex Sansalone repoint, restore and seal stone houses, chimneys, walls, patios and walkways, so the stonework on your property lasts another hundred years.
Who we are
Luciano Sansalone learned to set stone at fifteen, working beside his father and grandfather in Italy. He brought the trade to Bucks County more than forty years ago. His son Alex learned it the same way, on Luciano's job sites, and today the two of them run American Stone LS together.
What we restore
Mortar joints are meant to wear out so the stone does not. Catch them in time, repoint with the right mortar and keep water out, and your stone house, walls and patio will outlast all of us. That is the work we love most.
Failing joints raked out by hand and refilled with a mortar matched to your stone, on houses, chimneys, walls and steps.
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18th- and 19th-century fieldstone farmhouses brought back with lime mortar and a light hand. Stucco off, stone revealed.
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Breathable, penetrating sealers for flagstone patios, bluestone walkways and stone walls, applied after the joints are sound.
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Loose stones reset, cracked flags replaced, joints repointed and the pitch corrected so water runs off, not in.
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Retaining walls, garden walls and pillars repointed, recapped, or taken down and relaid with their original stone.
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We live and work in Doylestown. Most of our restorations are close to home, on the fieldstone farmhouses, bank barns and old walls that make this county what it is.
Selected work
Farmhouses, walls, patios and fireplaces. Click any photo to see it larger.
Our story
Luciano came over from Italy with a trade and not much else. Before there were websites, his work got around the way it still does in Bucks County: one neighbor showing another the fireplace.
Alex grew up on those job sites. Now they run the company together, and the two people who draw your project are the two people who set the stone.
“Stonework is a form of art, and we strive to build a masterpiece.” Luciano Sansalone, founder
How a restoration runs
Nearly every stone problem we are called for starts with water. We find where it gets in before we touch a trowel, and we never use a mortar harder than the stone it sits beside.
A free visit. We look at every joint, the gutters, the grade and the stains that show where water has been getting in.
What needs doing now, what can wait, and what does not need doing at all. Repair before rebuild, whenever it is possible.
Lime-rich mortar for old stone, matched in color and texture. Softer than the stone, so the joint wears and the stone survives.
Joints raked out by hand to sound mortar, packed in layers and tooled to shed water. Loose stones reset, broken ones replaced.
Where it helps, a breathable penetrating sealer once the mortar has cured. Then we tell you how to keep it that way.
Trusted by institutions
Three phases at one of Princeton University's historic eating clubs: a waterproofed second-floor porch patio over the kitchen, a new entrance that matches the building's gothic stone, and a full entertainment terrace with landing steps, retaining walls, walkways and an outdoor kitchen island in stone and granite.
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Restorations, rebuilds and retaining walls, filmed on real Bucks County job sites.
Off the clock
Family. Masonry. Traditions. That is the whole Instagram bio. On Sundays Luciano cooks, Alex films, and about three thousand people watch. Ravioli, Spaghetti alla Luciano, homemade wine with the cousins.
What clients say
“Easily the top mason contractor in Bucks County.”Peter Wallach · Buckingham, PA
“The outdoor fireplace he constructed for us is unique in design, elegant in style and visually beautiful.”Jerome & Tammy Connor · Doylestown, PA
“The project American Stone LS completed for me was a retaining wall in my backyard, and it's absolutely gorgeous.”Sherryl Gordan · Doylestown, PA
“They are great masonry contractors who are both highly experienced and pleasurable to work with.”Joe & Tana Damino · New Hope, PA
From the job site
Stucco coming off 200-year-old stone, a patio repointed, steps from 1930 put right, another mason's work fixed, and a fireplace built start to finish.
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