I contracted with Proscape to do numerous projects to get my small front and back yards more…read morepleasing to the eye and functional, and they did not disappoint! I first contacted them to perform core aeration and overseeding to a very tired lawn in the front and back of my house. I have to say, my lawn seems much more durable and the feeling of the grass under my feet is like carpeting! Since they did such a great job with that, I decided to consult them for some work I had been wanting to do in both my front and back yards. So, I contacted Matt Palin about the construction of a curved walkway leading from my front landing to my driveway and a small patio in the back yard to include a firepit. I also asked about redoing my flower beds. Again, my experience and communication with Proscape was excellent! Matt worked with me on the design and helped to pick out the pavers and even let me reuse the stones from my old firepit which already matched nicely with the pavers we selected. When the team came to my house to begin working, they greeted me, and the foreman on the job introduced himself to me. Half of the team got to work right away demolishing my old straight and broken concrete walkway, and the other half started to plot out the patio in the back yard. The account manager stopped by not long after the crew to ensure that I understood the process and when the entire job would be completed. He reviewed the work that was to be done and asked if I had any questions or concerns. I took the opportunity to ask if they could evaluate my landing and front steps because both were made out of concrete and the stairs had sunk and the top pad of the landing had broken in the back right corner. Proscape sent out their engineer a few days later to evaluate and we worked out a plan to fix the damage and upgrade my steps and landing with bluestone and stone veneer. I was beyond excited to see how this was all going to come together! I was hit with quite a shock when the workers removed the old aluminum columns that were holding up the roof above my landing. They had braced my roof before removing the columns and breaking up the old landing, and it was a good thing they did, because when they removed the columns, the foreman called me over to show me that they were hollow, and there was effectively nothing truly holding up the roof over the landing! Normally there would have at least been one support going from the load bearing corner of the roof down through the landing and into the ground on a footing. There was NOTHING! Yikes! The foreman also showed me that the right side of the roof was starting to buckle from the pressure and that's likely what caused the crack in the stop slab and the sinking of the front steps. They went to work right away and constructed a stone column with rebar reinforcement from the roof through the slab and into the ground so that the roof was fully supported. The foreman told me there was almost a 3-inch difference from one side of the landing to the other! That's how much everything had sunk...wow! When the top slab was finally complete the foreman showed me that it was totally level. They leveled the stairs, clad the entire landing and stairs with stone and placed bluestone caps on the top and on each stair and cheek-walsl (which was an added surprise!). Anyway...I went from a drab, concrete walkway, broken landing, sunken front steps, unappealing back yard, and rectangular flowerbeds to beautifully curved-edge flowerbeds, wide curving walkway, large stone-clad bluestone topped landing and steps, and an expanded entertainment space with firepit in the back yard. They are coming back to do a little more work for me because I want my side stairs to match my front stairs and I need some help with a small retaining wall. :)
If you need any kind of landscape/hardscape work done, I strongly encourage you to contact Proscape's professional, skilled, and reliable team. You won't be disappointed!!
