Category: Steps & Retaining Walls

Steps and Retaining Walls Bring Beautiful Benefits for Your Yard

The rolling hills of Westchester and Putnam Counties are famous for their beauty. However, this incredible landscape can cause some serious landscaping concerns for your lawn. Landwork Contractors is here to help you conquer these challenges and create breathtaking landscapes.

Steps and/or retaining walls can control unruly lawns and create gorgeous designs in your lawn. Here’s how each addition helps your lawn.

How Retaining Walls Improve Landscaping

Retaining walls are powerful tools against landscaping issues. Here are just a few ways to use them.

Control Erosion– These beautiful slopes and hills can create some major erosion issues. A retaining wall is a great way to decrease erosion issues by lowering the angle of the slope on your yard.

Create Level Land- Without a retaining wall, hills and slopes can make your yard mostly un-useable. A retaining wall can help create a flat area for daily use. Landwork Contractors has a team of experienced and skilled masons who can tackle any hill or slope and create a beautiful spot to relax.

Manage Run-Off- If you’ve noticed puddles of water or marshy areas in your yard, a retaining is the answer. Using a retaining wall for run-off management will:

• Keep street water out of your yard
• Improve the health of your yard by decreasing damp spots
• Increase yard usage

Provide Extra Seating- Seating can be placed inside the retaining wall or the wall itself can be used for seating.

How Steps Improve Landscapes

In any landscaping, steps help your home in the following ways.

Increase Safety- Steps in your landscaping provide safe passages through your hilly, sloping, or uneven countryside.

Connect Sections of Your Landscape- A well-placed set of stairs can open up other areas of your landscaping by connecting them to your home or driveway. A backyard getaway can feel remote while still being close-by when steps are included in the design.

Direct the Flow of Traffic- Stairs can help direct foot traffic to and from areas of your home while protecting your lawn. Stairs from the street will help keep people from walking through your favorite garden spot.

Tame the Terrain with Professionally Installed Steps and Retaining Walls

Both steps and Retaining walls help you tame the terrain that surrounds your home or business. The experts at Landwork Contractors can turn your hilly yard into a beautiful landscape that you can enjoy all summer long. Call us today at 914-479-2537 or make an appointment online, we can’t wait to start on your dream design.

Keep Your Home Beautiful All Year with Professional Fall Cleanup and Care

With the abundance of leaves that fall in our beautiful Hudson River Valley, it is really never too early to prepare for fall. Falling leaves, heavy winds, and chilly temps can take the awe out of Autumn. Trusted professional landscapers, Landwork Contractors have over 300 years of combined experience in the area. We know the region very well and are experts at caring for homes like yours. Some of our services include:

When autumn winds start to gust and blow, LandworkContractors is here to keep your yard in top shape.

Fight Fall with Carefully Planned Maintenance

Leaves left on lawns can suffocate growing grass or create dangers slippery spots. Branches blown down during storms can tangle up other limbs or create hazards near power lines and gutters. Grass that has dried out in summer starts to turn damp or dry out. Fall certainly takes a beating on our lawns. Here are a few ways to keep your home or office beautiful in all the bluster.

• Add Air to Your Soil-Aeration is top of the list in cleaning up fall issues before they start. The process pokes tiny holes in the soil so light, nutrients, air, and water can reach roots and encourage them to grow deep before the first freeze.

• Feed Starving Lawns- After the aeration process, lawns need to be fed with a little fertilizer and be given new seeds. The process, called overseeding, will create new growth that will help fight off disease during cold fall and winter months.

• Tidy Up…Everything- A lot more than leaves fall during the fall season. Dead branches, twigs, leaves, and fruit can all drop during fall. Watersprouts spring up in summer and need to be cut back. Lawns still need regular mowing at the appropriate length. These things must be picked up, trimmed, or pruned regularly to avoid disease or decay in your lawn and plants. Landwork Contractors knows which plants to pick up, trim, cut back, or rake. We also offer leaf blowing relocation and removal services to make tidying even easier for your home.

• Add Some Color- Fall doesn’t have to be drab, even when you are cleaning. It is actually the perfect time to add a pop of color with fall plantings and plan for spring beauty with fall bulbs. Vibrantly colored mums will match the autumn hillsides now while the fall bulbs grow beneath the surface waiting for spring.

• Bonus! Harvest Decorations- After you’ve cleaned up and prepped for fall, it’s the perfect time to add a little harvest display or fall decoration. Landwork Contractors loves helping our clients celebrate fall holidays or sports with decorations including hay bales, wreaths, mum plantings and more. A nice display can brighten up even the grayest autumn day.

Keeping Your Yard Clean Saves Time & Money!

Fall Cleanup can be really hard, often back-breaking work. In the end, the steps you take today can save you from disaster, disease, and decay later on. Let Landwork Contractors do the work for you, so you can sit back and enjoy the changing leaves without breaking a sweat. Call us today at 914-479-2537 so you can save your lawn now. Or make an appointment online now while you watch football or plan your Halloween party!