Retaining walls, pathways, steps, and the planting side too — coordinated through the trade partners we work with.
A yard usually needs two different kinds of trade. There is the structural side — retaining walls, steps, base and drainage — and there is the planting side. Arranged separately, they turn into separate jobs on separate schedules, each one waiting on the other.
A retaining wall is holding back a measurable amount of soil, and the ones that fail almost always failed for the same reasons: no drainage behind the wall, an inadequate base, or no consideration of what the frost was going to do to it. The blocks on the front are the last thing that matters.
Both sides run through the trade partners we work with, with the project coordinated through us. Base preparation, drainage, and compaction come first and appearance comes second — the same order we work in on the structural side of a build. That is what keeps a wall or a pathway sitting level after the ground has gone through a few Alberta winters.
Work ranges from a single set of steps to a full yard with walls, patio, and planting. Whatever the scale, the part you will never see is where the durability comes from.
Grade changes held properly, with the drainage and base work that keeps them standing.
Paver walkways, patios, and steps set on a base built to stay level.
The softscape side and the spaces around it, brought in through the trades we work with.
There is a height threshold above which a retaining wall needs engineered drawings and a permit. Where a specific wall falls depends on its height and what it is holding back.
Not if the base was built properly. Settling is almost always a base preparation and compaction problem, which is exactly the part of the job that gets rushed when a price looks too good.
Yes. We work closely with our trade partners on both sides of a yard — the hardscaping and the planting — and coordinate the work through us, so it stays one project rather than several.
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