Garden & Retaining Walls for homes in Ollerton
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 Ollerton
Ollerton is two distinct places sharing a name. Old Ollerton is a small historic village on the River Maun with period cottages, mature trees and traditional boundaries, where natural stone paving and sympathetic walling sit far better than anything sharply modern. New Ollerton, built for the colliery, is planned housing on a much larger scale — regular streets of brick semis and terraces with the generous front and rear gardens typical of purpose-built pit housing. The two need genuinely different design approaches. The town sits on the edge of Sherwood Forest on sandy, free-draining ground, which is generally favourable for building driveway and patio bases, though it still needs compacting properly rather than being treated as a sub-base in its own right.
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