Garden & Retaining Walls for homes in Nottingham
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 Nottingham
Nottingham covers an enormous range of property types and the outdoor work varies just as widely across it. The inner suburbs are dense Victorian and Edwardian terracing with small frontages where off-road parking is at a premium and a well-designed dropped-kerb driveway makes a real practical difference. The established suburban belt is largely inter-war semis and detached housing with the long, narrow rear gardens typical of that period, which suit being broken into zones — a patio close to the house, lawn or artificial grass beyond, and a path linking through. Newer estate housing around the city edge tends to have compact, level rear gardens where artificial grass and porcelain paving are the most requested combination. The city's sandstone geology is well known, and it does affect excavation, so ground is assessed per property.
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