Garden & Retaining Walls for homes in Farnsfield
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 Farnsfield
Farnsfield is a sizeable village in the countryside between Mansfield and Southwell, and its character is noticeably more rural than the former mining settlements to the north and west. There is an older core of brick and pantile cottages and period properties around the church, with substantial later private housing added around it — much of it detached, on larger plots with mature gardens. Larger plots change the nature of the work: driveways here are often longer approaches with turning areas rather than short frontages, and rear gardens are big enough to warrant a proper layout with distinct areas, paths connecting them and planting borders framing the whole thing. Established trees and hedging are common and worth protecting through excavation rather than working around afterward.
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