Garden & Retaining Walls for homes in Chesterfield
We build walls — retaining walls that hold a change in level across a sloping garden, boundary and front garden walls, low walls that frame a patio or raise a planting bed, and the piers and steps that go with them. A retaining wall is a structural job rather than a decorative one: it needs footings dug to the right depth, the correct blockwork or masonry behind the face, and drainage built in behind it so water pressure does not build up and push it out over the following winters. We match brick and stone to the house as closely as the materials allow, and finish copings and caps so the top line of the wall runs true.
Working in Chesterfield
Chesterfield sits on the eastern edge of the Peak District, and the town's position on rising ground shapes a lot of the work here. Rear gardens on the slopes running up from the town centre frequently need retaining and terracing before they are properly usable, and front drives often need levels and falls worked out carefully so surface water runs to the road rather than back toward the house. The property mix runs from stone and brick terracing in the older parts, through extensive inter-war and post-war semi-detached housing, to modern developments around the edges. Local stone is a strong presence in walls and boundaries across the town, so matching new walling and paving to what is already there tends to produce a much better result than importing a material that has no relationship to the street.
What's included
- Retaining walls with correct footings and drainage
- Boundary, front garden and raised bed walls
- Piers, steps and copings
- Brick and stone matched to the property