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37+ years, Putnam & northern Westchester

Masonry & Hardscaping

Walls, patios, walkways, driveways and structural masonry — built on a base that holds through a Hudson Valley winter.

Most masonry that fails around here does not fail because of the stone. It fails because of what is underneath it and what happens to the water. A patio laid on four inches of unconsolidated fill will heave the first winter. A wall built without drainage behind it will lean by its third spring, because saturated soil pushing on a wall weighs roughly twice what dry soil does.

That is the part of this work you cannot see once it is finished, and it is most of the job. Excavation to a real depth, a compacted base in lifts rather than one dumped layer, drainage stone and pipe behind every wall that retains anything, and grade that moves water somewhere deliberate. The stone on top is the last day of a week's work.

Masonry & Hardscaping services

Retaining Walls

Block, stone and engineered walls that hold a grade — with the drainage behind them that decides whether they still do in ten years.

What this involves

Stone & Paver Patios

Bluestone, flagstone and interlocking pavers, laid on a base built for a Hudson Valley winter rather than for a photograph.

What this involves

Walkways & Driveways

Paver, blacktop, concrete and natural stone — the surfaces that carry the most weight and get looked at first.

What this involves

Brick & Block Masonry

Structural block, brick veneer, chimneys and repointing — the masonry that is part of the building rather than the yard.

What this involves

Concrete Services

Slabs, footings, sidewalks, curbing and steps — poured on a prepared base, reinforced, and jointed where it will crack anyway.

What this involves

Masonry work

Photographs from our own jobs in this category.

A freshly laid blacktop driveway running past a white clapboard house, edged with a course of granite cobble against a bed of river stone.
Blacktop driveway with a granite cobble edge
Three crew members in hard hats and hi-vis setting large bluestone slabs into a screeded bed beside a lawn.
Setting bluestone on a front walk
A paving crew raking hot asphalt behind a paver machine in a parking area beside a white clapboard building.
Paving a parish parking lot
A curved bluestone walk in mixed rectangular pieces leading to granite block steps at a covered porch.
Bluestone walk into granite steps
A bluestone walk curving around a planted bed with a Japanese maple, laid in a random rectangular pattern.
Curved bluestone walk around a maple
A straight paver entry walk with a darker charcoal border leading to the covered entrance of a low public building.
Paver entry walk with a charcoal border
A large red interlocking paver apron with a granite curb edge at a commercial service entrance.
Paver apron at a commercial entrance
A narrow side-yard passage newly paved in mixed grey and blue bluestone, running between a fence and a building wall.
Bluestone landing in a tight side yard
A natural stone retaining wall under construction, with poured concrete pier footings visible in the excavated trench beside it.
Stone wall over poured pier footings

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