Garden & Retaining Walls for homes in Ordsall
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 Ordsall
Ordsall sits on the southern side of Retford and combines an older village core around the church with extensive twentieth-century suburban development that has joined it to the town. The suburban housing is the bulk of it — inter-war and post-war semis and detached properties on regular plots, with frontages that were laid out as front gardens and rear gardens of a workable length. Those frontages convert well into proper driveways once the original narrow strip is lifted and a full-width base is built. The ground here is level, as it is across most of Retford, which means falls and drainage have to be set out deliberately: permeable resin surfacing and properly planned soakaways or channels do real work on flat sites like these.
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