Landscaping
Patios, walkways, edging and walls built on a proper base. Typical range $1,800-$12,000 per project, confirmed for your yard on the call.
Hardscape is the part of the yard that is built, not grown, and it succeeds or fails underground. A paver patio is really a excavation and gravel project with a visible top: dig out the soft soil, compact a proper base in lifts, screed the bedding layer, lay the stone, and lock the joints. Skip the base work and the same patio ripples, holds water and grows weeds in the joints within two seasons. In clay country the base matters twice as much, because clay swells when wet and shrinks when dry, and it will happily move anything built on a shortcut.
Homeowners book hardscaping for patios that extend a cramped back door landing, walkways that end the mud path to the gate, steel or stone edging that finally keeps mulch in the bed and grass out of it, and low retaining work where a slope keeps washing into the lawn. The appointment is a planning visit as much as a pricing one: how the space will be used, where water currently runs, and which materials suit the house and the budget, all get settled before ground is broken.
Call (866) 555-0134 between 9am and 5pm CST, any day of the week. Tell us the job and your ZIP code, and we connect you with a local contractor who can set the appointment on the spot.
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Measurements, sun and drainage patterns, and how you actually use the yard shape the design and the price range.
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Soft soil comes out, base gravel goes in and is compacted in layers; this invisible work decides the project's life.
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Stone or pavers are laid to pattern, cut to edges, jointed and compacted, with final grade checked against the house.
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The finished work is walked with you, including care notes for joints and settling.
Typical range for hardscaping: $1,800-$12,000 per project. Your contractor confirms the range for your job on the call, before you book.
Dallas-Fort Worth: lawns here are mostly Bermuda and St. Augustine, with zoysia in some shaded yards, on heavy black clay that swells when wet and cracks when dry. Spring green-up and pre-emergent timing, summer watering discipline, and fall recovery define the DFW lawn year.
Greater Houston: lawns here are mostly St. Augustine almost everywhere, with Bermuda in full-sun newer yards, on dense gumbo clay that drains slowly and stays wet after storms. Houston lawns grow nearly year-round, so mowing rhythm, fungus watch and drainage drive the calendar.
Jacksonville and Northeast Florida: lawns here are mostly St. Augustine (Floratam) and Bahia, with zoysia and centipede in some yards, on sandy soil that drains fast and lets nutrients wash through. The rainy season sets the Northeast Florida calendar: feeding and mowing surge with the summer rains, and many local rules restrict fertilizer during the wettest months, which is worth checking before any application.
Suburban Maryland: lawns here are mostly tall fescue as the standard lawn, often blended with Kentucky bluegrass and perennial rye, on varied Piedmont and coastal soils, with clay common in older suburbs. Fall is the Maryland lawn season: aeration and overseeding in early fall do more for a fescue lawn than everything else combined, and Maryland's fertilizer rules pause applications through winter, which makes the fall feeding window count.
Northern Virginia: lawns here are mostly tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass blends, on heavy red and orange clay across much of Fairfax and Loudoun. Northern Virginia runs on the cool-season calendar: fall aeration and overseeding is the main event, spring pre-emergent protects it, and fall clean-up keeps leaves from undoing it.
Atlanta: lawns here are mostly Bermuda and zoysia in full sun, tall fescue in shade, a true transition-zone mix, on Georgia red clay, acidic and prone to compaction and erosion on slopes. Atlanta runs two lawn calendars at once: Bermuda lawns wake in spring and sleep in winter, while fescue lawns are rebuilt every fall and defended through summer.
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See lawn care in this metroA standard residential patio usually runs three to seven working days once ground is broken, with larger walls and multi-level work taking longer. Weather and material delivery are the usual swing factors, and your contractor will give you the honest window at booking.
On a properly excavated and compacted base, movement is minimal and individual pavers can be lifted and re-levelled if the ground ever does shift, which is a real advantage over poured concrete that cracks as one piece.
Low landscape walls and patios at grade often do not, but taller retaining walls, work near easements and some municipalities do require permits or engineering. Your contractor flags this at the planning visit rather than after work starts.
Often partly, yes. Regrading, channel drains and directing runoff into the design are standard parts of planning, because a patio that ignores water will be undermined by it.
Call (866) 555-0134 during opening hours, 9am-5pm CST Mon-Sun. You will talk through the work with a real person and finish the call with a visit scheduled.