Straight Up Masonry

My name is Leo Fehrenbacker. I'm the founder of Straight Up Masonry, and I've been a mason for over 20 years. I learned the trade back when I was just a kid living in the panhandle of Idaho, with a wife, two babies in diapers, and not a soul around. I got a job at the union, working as a laborer in a paper mill. I was a young hungry kid so naturally all the trades wanted me to come work with them. I wasn't really sure what to do. So I called my dad and he said, "Masonry is in your blood." That kind of stuck in my head. My great grandfather was a stonemason in Germany, so when I talked to my foreman a couple of days later, I told him I was thinking about masonry and he looked me right in the eye and said, "I've never known a good mason to go hungry." So I picked it up and never looked back. That was over 20 years ago, and I've never gone hungry. I started my own company with some partners about 15 years ago. I had just moved to southern Utah and that went well for years but ended up going belly up during the recession. Then about 2 years ago I started Straight Up Masonry. We are religious about quality. I'm always preaching quality in the tooling, quality in the brushing, quality in the laying. I tell my guys, "I sell the best block walls in town, therefore we have to lay the best block walls in town." "I'm confident that I am the best mason around so I only work with the best."