For those of you paying attention, you know our crews have fashioned life-sized stone Hop Scotch and Chess boards. But a sports court sized mini-soccer field? That's clearly leveling way up on the game construction thing. But our guys were up to the task! The first, and major, problem was an engineering one: The sports … Continue reading Maxi Effort on a Mini Soccer Field
Category: Retaining Walls
Patio & Walkway
Our work on this difficult lakeside slope continues. From last year, here's what we started with: And here's what we finished with: This year, the customer upgraded the boathouse and wooden deck and steps, and our guys completed a patio walkway combination to tie the house to the lake. This is a 22' x 30' … Continue reading Patio & Walkway
Poolside Revisited
We've finished up the Sheffield Diamond Pro retaining wall around this customer's pool, which we posted on here. Click on any photo to get a closer look. Here's how it all looked the last time we posted. And here are the finished photos. Click on any photo to get a closer look. These are stone … Continue reading Poolside Revisited
Poolside
Here's a quick look at a current project: a retaining wall to enhance and buttress a wonderful patio-pool complex. Often, before you can build up you must dig down - in this case, we had to level out the ground around the patio pool. What we installed in the cleared space is a a 114' … Continue reading Poolside
Upgrades
"Upgrades" does not begin to capture the makeover our crews did for this customer, from grading to sod to new planting beds to drainage control to ... well, let's go through it all. Here's the view from the front to the street when we started. Here are the side yards ... ... and this is … Continue reading Upgrades
Landscape & Hardscape
Here is the latest project involving our expertise in both landscaping and hardscape. We are going to go through all of this slowly, so you can appreciate the scale of what our crews accomplished. In addition to grading and loads of topsoil to prep the beds, we constructed an 18" tall by 60' long Colonial … Continue reading Landscape & Hardscape
A Longer Walk
We detailed previously the installation of A Long Walk for this customer - more than a football field in length of River Street Lafitt paver stones: Our intrepid crews have returned to extend this long walk around the front of the house and replace the double row of timber retaining walls with a sturdy stone … Continue reading A Longer Walk