Retaining wall, paving & steps

Large-format flagstone paving, stone-slab steps, and low dry stone retaining walls — fitted tight, pitched to drain, and built over 2015 and 2016 as the ground plane around a house.

Flagstone must sit flat underfoot, shed water away from the foundation, and hold its joints through frost — none of which is visible once it reads as simply the patio.

The flagging may be large format, and is laid to close jointing with the gaps grouted, so the surface stays semi-permeable.

Flagstone paving being laid behind a house.
June 2016

What keeps paving comfortable years later is the bed underneath it and the pitch built into it, not the stone on top. Slab steps and a low retaining edge carry the surface down the grade where the ground falls away.

Finished flagstone patio with stone steps at a clapboard house.
March 2016
Slab steps and flagstone paving stepping down beside a dry stone retaining wall.
June 2016

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