We spent well over $125,000. with Greensward for design and install of waterfront seawall, beach, firepits and path. It was spectacular! It was amazing! It was illegal! The entire project was built without permits from either Louisa County or Dominion Virginia Power, who owns all the land around the lake perimeter where all the landscaping was done. Dominion demanded the beach be removed. Louisa County was unable to do regular inspections of the seawall as it was being built. After the seawall was built without permit, another contractor was to come in to build the $150,000 boat house. But the seawall was cracking in an area of 30 feet between the wall and the pavers of the patio. Greensward quickly made repairs. The boat house was built and the following year, the wall started cracking again and sinking deeply. Greensward came back to do repairs. Year three was the final year of the warranty but Greensward refused to come even look. Meanwhile, the beach was also failing. The beach was supposed to have a stone perimeter but after Dominion demanded removal, The stones were moved into a wall closer to the house. The beach had a rediculous wall of 4x4 landscape timbers. Greensward came back after a year of complaints and used 6x6 lumber purchased by me. Immediately after repair, large gray boulders became exposed where there is supposed to be landscape fabric to hold sand. Landscape fabric installation is specifically listed in the contract but you can clearly see that the fabric was not installed properly. Finally, all along the project we were promised that we would have a way to get into the water from the beach for humans and for kayaks. Greensward used my 6x6 lumber to fashion some stairs which detached and started floating after a few weeks of boating season. Greensward sent one employee with a hammer to pound a single raised rebar back down on the step, which began floating again the following week. We were also told by the owner of Greenward throughout that we shouldn't "catastrophize the situation" which really didn't help with my catastrophic situation with his end results. While Greensward staff makes a nice first impression, the end results and attitude were extremely frustrating and maddening. I would steer clear of Greensward. Particularly if ANY water is involved or ANY permitting. read more