Retaining Walls
Segmental and natural stone walls built with the drainage and reinforcement the soil load actually requires.
Retaining Walls · East Lansing, MIWhat this actually involves
A retaining wall is a structure holding back a wet, heavy, freezing hillside — not decorative edging. What keeps it standing is the base, the drainage stone and pipe behind it, and geogrid reinforcement into the slope where the height calls for it. Walls that lean and bulge in year three skipped one of those three.
One of our own customers described a wall we built for them as "a work of art." We would rather it be described as still perfectly straight.
What is included
- Compacted base course set below grade and levelled to tolerance
- Free-draining stone backfill and drain tile behind the wall face
- Geogrid reinforcement into the retained soil where the height requires it
- Segmental block, boulder, and natural stone construction
- Walls over four feet designed and permitted per code, not eyeballed
Every completed project carries a 1-year labor and material warranty. Discounts for military, veterans, senior citizens, and first responders.
The rest of this discipline
Patios, walks, walls, and fire features built on the base and drainage that a Michigan freeze-thaw cycle demands.
Paver Patios & Walkways
Patios, walks, and driveways built on a proper compacted base — the part nobody sees and the only part that decides whether it stays flat.
Fire Pits & Outdoor Living
Fire pits, seat walls, pergolas, and the patio that ties them together into a room you will actually use.
Light Excavation & Grading
Regrading, contouring, and drainage correction — moving water away from a house before it becomes the expensive kind of problem.
Everything else we do
Landscape Design
Measured drawings and a planting plan built around your house, your soil, and how you actually use the yard — not a catalogue layout.
Year-Round Consultations
We sit down with homeowners in every month of the year — including the ones when nothing is growing and the schedule is still wide open.
Landscape Installation
The full build — beds, plantings, grading, sod, mulch, and hardscape — installed by our own crew, one project at a time.
Tree & Shrub Planting
The right species, in the right place, planted at the right depth — the three things that decide whether a tree is alive in ten years.
Retaining Walls in the Greater Lansing area.
Tell us about the property and we will arrange a consultation. We consult year-round — including the months nobody else will book you.