Garden & Retaining Walls for homes in Ravenshead
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 Ravenshead
Ravenshead sits between Mansfield and Nottingham on the edge of the old Sherwood estates near Newstead Abbey, and it is noticeably different in character from the former mining towns around it — largely twentieth-century private housing, much of it detached and set on generous, well-treed plots. Larger plots with mature trees change the work in specific ways: driveways tend to be longer approaches with turning areas rather than short frontages, established root systems need to be respected during excavation, and rear gardens are big enough to justify a properly designed layout with terraces, steps, paths and defined planting areas. The wooded setting also makes surface choice worth thinking about, since dense porcelain and resin surfaces handle heavy autumn leaf fall far better than open-textured ones.
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