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Brick and Concrete Services to Enhance Your Residential Landscaping

Have you considered using concrete to help beautify your lawn and garden this year? One of the most exciting types of home improvements you can request using this versatile building material involves adding a series of lovely terraced retaining walls to your yard. You can ask us to undertake this project for you soon. This surprisingly affordable improvement offers a great way to help showcase a garden, create a visually interesting landscape, or reduce maintenance and lawn care responsibilities.

A Variety of Stylish Concrete Terraced Retaining Walls

We install many different types of concrete terraced retaining walls for customers. These structures help to enclose the ground and prevent the erosion of a hillside. For instance, depending upon the terrain, you can request a wall built entirely from concrete, or one using concrete blocks (or bricks) and mortar. In most cases, we insert strong metal rebar and/or metal mesh inside the concrete to supply extra support. Today, a variety of techniques enable us to finish this building material using surfaces and colors selected by the customer. You can request a concrete wall designed to imitate a brick, stone, or ceramic surface.

If you’d like to install a retaining wall along a steeply sloping landscape or beside a body of water, it usually makes sense to request input from an engineer; yet in most cases, we can install purely decorative terraced retaining walls in flat or gently sloping yards relatively quickly. We level the surface and erect a wall fitting a customer’s desired specifications. Adding one (or more) of these structures to a yard may significantly change the overall appearance of the property.

Display Flowering Plants Attractively

This type of structure assists anyone desiring to draw attention to specific landscaping features. It provides a very easy way to develop an attractive planting area in the midst of a front lawn, for instance. By creating one or two elevated terraced surfaces, a property owner may ensure flowers and shrubs grown in these locations enjoy greater visibility.

Consider using this technique to showcase festive blooms. You might cultivate blossoms appealing to butterflies or humming birds in this location. We can treat the surface of the terraced concrete retaining wall to meet your unique design goals. Would you like us to create surfaces resembling rock, slate or even marble? We’ll help you accomplish this objective.

Add Aesthetic Qualities to a Front or Back Yard

For example, while a restaurant or a new residential living center might desire a small terraced retaining wall to provide a level platform for a new sign, a homeowner may employ this same technique to set apart a specific garden bed. If a flat lawn does not flatter the “curb appeal” of the residence, for instance, you might consider adding a small, prominent rose or rock gardening island. Ask us to install a terraced retaining wall to demarcate this location within the yard.

For instance, perhaps you’ve noticed homes which include decorative birdbaths, benches, pavilions, or sun dials? Placing these items within an elevated area surrounded by a decorative terraced concrete retaining wall will help them stand out. This terraced location does not require an extensive size to dramatically impact the appearance of the yard. For instance, in the case of a birdbath or a sun dial, you might consider asking us to build a short 6″ inch terraced retaining wall adjoining a backyard patio, and then embedding the addition inside this structure within a layer of concrete; it will enjoy greater stability, while providing visual interest.

Reduce Hillside Mowing Chores

Terraced concrete retaining walls may significantly reduce routine maintenance responsibilities in some situations. For instance, mowing hillsides proves physically demanding. If you’d like to reduce the extent of the lawn (and thus eliminate some mowing), why not consider adding a series of terraced concrete retaining walls or custom stone and brick landscapes to this location? We can fill the space between the terraces with gravel or natural stone.

This form of “xeriscaping” has gained popularity in places where property owners need to conserve water. It offers a very practical alternative to a lawn for some North Carolina homeowners also. Although not feasible in every case, terracing portions of a front or back yard may decrease your annual maintenance responsibilities.

Further Information

To receive further information about our excellent concrete terraces and retaining walls (or any of our other attractive concrete services, custom brick and stone work including patios, driveways, pool sides, and walkways), simply get in touch with us as soon as possible. We offer skilled customized concrete contractor services. We serve the entire Raleigh, North Carolina area. Contact us via the convenient online form, or call 919-454-3927. We’d love to discuss concrete project ideas with you!