Hardscape Install
Hardscape Install
Patios, Walkways and Retaining Walls Built to Hold
Paver patios, natural stone, concrete surfaces, walkways, steps and retaining walls installed by KBK Landscaping Inc. on residential, commercial and municipal properties across Southeast Michigan.
Hardscape is the part of a landscape that either lasts twenty years or fails in three, and the difference is almost never the surface material. It is excavation depth, base compaction, edge restraint and drainage. Michigan freeze-thaw finds every shortcut underneath a patio, usually in the second or third spring, which is when settled pavers and leaning walls start showing up.
The finished work in this gallery covers paver patios and outdoor living areas, natural stone features, poured concrete surfaces where concrete is the right structural answer, walkways and entry approaches, steps, and segmental retaining walls. Retaining walls in particular are engineered rather than stacked: wall height, soil bearing capacity, drainage behind the wall and the load it is actually holding back all set the specification.
What Happens Before the First Paver
Every KBK hardscape installation starts with a site read — soil composition and bearing capacity, existing grade and how water currently moves across the property, frost depth requirements, and root systems that have to be worked around rather than through. On sites with a high water table or a drainage problem, subsurface drainage is designed into the structure from the beginning instead of being retrofitted after the first wet spring.
If you are looking at an existing patio that resettles every year or a wall that has started to lean, the honest answer is often a rebuild rather than a repair, because the problem is under the surface. KBK gives free on-site assessments that say so plainly, including what a rebuild would involve, so you can make the call with real information.
Start Your Hardscape Project With a Site Assessment
KBK Landscaping Inc. reads the soil, grade and drainage first, then quotes the patio, walkway or retaining wall the site can actually support.