Stonework that holds its line.
Walkways, front entries, patios and retaining walls in bluestone, flagstone and paver, built on a base that won’t settle. Twenty years in the trade.
The walk to your front door is the first thing anyone sees.
Ground Solution builds the walkways, entries, steps, patios and walls that have to carry weight and stay level for decades.
The hard parts of a landscape
Pennsylvania bluestone, irregular flagstone, dry-stack fieldstone. We lay manufactured pavers and wall block where the design calls for it. Every job is laid out on site, cut on site, and finished by the same crew that started it.
Mostly natural stone
Every estimate is written and itemized, with the material named and the base depth stated, so you can compare it properly against anyone else’s.
Written and itemized
Why a walkway settles
A paver or a bluestone slab is only ever as flat as the base beneath it, and the base is the part nobody sees once the job is done. That’s exactly why it’s the part that gets cut.
Most walkways that fail, failed underneath
We dig to full depth, compact the base in layers rather than all at once, and level a bedding course before a single stone goes down. On Virginia clay that’s the difference between a walk that’s still level in ten years and one that’s a trip hazard in three. Ask anyone bidding your job how deep they’re digging and how many passes they’ll make with the compactor.
How we build the base
Almost everything we build curves
Every cut is square, and the edging goes in on a string line.
A straight run is the faster job
Cut on an angle stone by stone, and held true the whole way around. It takes longer and it costs more. We build it anyway, because a front yard almost never wants a straight line in it, and because a curve is the thing people notice from the street without quite knowing why. Look through the work below. You’ll struggle to find a straight line in it.
A curve has to be set out by eye
Thinking about a project?
Send a photo of the spot and roughly what you have in mind. We’ll come out, measure, and give you a written price.