Any landscapers on CP or know of anyone good?

[bc-chris]

Originally Posted by return to the red

shiat dude! you did all the yourself? That's pretty damn impressive, are you landscaper by trade?

nope... not a landscaper... just hate paying people to do stuff i can do.

we built the back block wall. then rented a mini excavator and hired a kid that could operate it to build the rock wall up the side of the property (i was the slave labour that day...ugghhh.... my back still hurts thinking about it!). we did all our own irrigation, landscape lighting, sod, planting of trees/plants, etc.

Originally Posted by Brotato

Thanks guys,

So one question. When I am doing this, it talks about wall rock going behind is a few inches and inside it. Is that just a highly compressable crushed stone then? So I add a few inches of that, then a few inches of for right up against the AB? Then dirty behind that?

it depends on your soil - our property is on an old quarry - so our land in all rock/sand/hardpack - so we have pretty killer drainage.

when we did our wall, i put weeping tile all along the inside at the base of the wall and it drains into a freakin huge pit (we have 2 huge drainage pits at the back of our property that our eaves troughs drain into... each pit hold 2 full dumptrucks of gravel!). then we used some gravel on top of that, then our sandy 'soil'.

if you are digging up actual soil, then i strongly recommend a bunch of gravel at the base of the wall - it will definitely help with drainage. for a footing (if you don't want to do concrete) then you'd want a crush for that... it compacts really nice and you can get it pretty deadly level

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Brotato

Thanks guys,

So one question. When I am doing this, it talks about wall rock going behind is a few inches and inside it. Is that just a highly compressable crushed stone then? So I add a few inches of that, then a few inches of for right up against the AB? Then dirty behind that?

Wall rock in this case should be a washed rock, about 3/4", with a strong filter cloth to separate the top soil from it. Inside the blocks, on the first couple levels you can use 3/4" road crush, since you will probably have some from the base left over and it can help provide some stability.

[Wormius]

For a small garden border using the ABB juniors, how much tamping is required to make a stable base so the rocks don't shift around. I have seen some good examples around my neighborhood of ones that are well-done, but there are also some that look like they just ripped out the sod and put the blocks on. I'd like to just have it stable enough so that occasionally stepping on the stones and entering the garden to do some work won't make them shift out of place. Any tricks? Should I hammer in some rebar and fill with gravel to keep them in place?

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Wormius

For a small garden border using the ABB juniors, how much tamping is required to make a stable base so the rocks don't shift around. I have seen some good examples around my neighborhood of ones that are well-done, but there are also some that look like they just ripped out the sod and put the blocks on. I'd like to just have it stable enough so that occasionally stepping on the stones and entering the garden to do some work won't make them shift out of place. Any tricks? Should I hammer in some rebar and fill with gravel to keep them in place?

I would not use Juniors, but instead use Junior Jumbos. They have a bit more weight to them, and don't shift as much as a result.

I would use a 3-4 inch base of 3/4" road crush that is packed with a hand tamper. I would make it at least 4 inches wider on the front and the back than the block itself. The block should be buried (on the front) at least 1 full inch per block height of the wall. The inside of the block and the back should be packed with drainage gravel as well.

[cral12]

Can anyone recommend a landscaping company for a consult/estimate? For the most part, looking on how to take care of what we have properly (bought new house last fall) and want to add a couple of trees potentially.

Thanks.

[cral12]

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