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We're With You From Start to Finish

The first visit, the dig, the drainage nobody sees, the last cap stone and the first watering. Here is what that looks like on real jobs across Greater Boston, photographed stage by stage.

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Start To Finish

We're With You From Start
To Finish

A Hillside Retaining Wall

From broken-out concrete to a finished segmental wall: every stage of one hillside job, photographed in the order it was built.

1 Step 1 of 7
Break Out the Old

The old concrete and rubble come out completely. Burying debris under a new wall is the quickest way to get a wall that settles crooked by its second spring.
2 Step 2 of 7
Prepare the Site

Machines in, slope cut back to firm ground. Everything that follows sits on what we dig down to here, so we dig until it is right.
3 Step 3 of 7
Dig the Drainage Line

Most walls that fail in New England fail because of water, not weight. Water trapped behind a wall freezes, expands and pushes. This trench is where it gets carried away instead.
4 Step 4 of 7
Lay the Drainage Stone

Clean crushed stone fills the trench, so water runs through and out rather than sitting against the back of the block all winter.
5 Step 5 of 7
Set the Base Course

The first row is the one that matters. Every course above it copies whatever mistakes are in it, so it gets levelled and checked block by block.
6 Step 6 of 7
Build It Up

Course by course, with drainage stone behind the block as it rises. Done properly, the wall and the stone behind it work as one structure.
✓ Finished
Holding the Hill

Built, backfilled and holding the slope. The part you see is the wall. The part that keeps it standing through a Boston winter is everything underneath it.

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Wall Caps, Fencing & a New Lawn

A wall is not a finished yard. This is the finishing work: capping, fencing the drop, grading, and getting a lawn in during the fall seeding window.

1 Step 1 of 5
Cap the Wall

Cap stones finish the top course and shed water off the face of the wall rather than letting it run down into the joints.
2 Step 2 of 5
Fence the Drop

Where there is a drop on the far side, a fence along the top is what turns a wall into a yard you can actually let kids and dogs into.
3 Step 3 of 5
Grade for the Lawn

The ground between the fence and the house is graded so water runs away from the foundation and the wall, not toward them.
4 Step 4 of 5
Hydroseed

Seed, mulch and fertilizer go down in one sprayed slurry. The green tint is there so the crew can see coverage and nothing gets missed.
✓ Finished
Seeded Edge to Edge

Every strip covered, right up to the fence line and the driveway edge, timed for the fall window when new grass has the best start it will get all year.