Hardscaping in Washington, DC
Overview
Hardscaping in Washington, DC includes the sections of an outdoor landscape made of heavy stone, masonry, or concrete materials. The hardscaping services in Washington, DC provided by Infinity Design Solutions include concrete or stone walkways, brick walkways and patios, curbs, driveways, ramps, stairways and many other elements of the outdoor landscape. There are many creative ways in which modern concrete and historic stone and brick masonry elements are implemented and coordinated together or individual elements to create beautiful outdoor spaces. We can provide hardscaping design experience assistance or we can work with a designer of your choice to configure outdoor space for optimal usage. Click here for a direct link to more information about our design services.
We provide the following Hardscaping, Masonry Stairs, and Retaining Walls services, and many more
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Concrete Walkways, Driveways & Patios
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Stone and Brick Walkways and Patios
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Masonry Stairs and Retaining Walls
Concrete Walkways, Driveways and Patios in Washington, DC
IDS can provide services to cut, core, demolish and dispose of existing concrete or hardscaping walkways, driveways and patios. Once the ground is clear, we can import proper sub-surfaces and grade the subsurface as needed, and then compact and prep the subbase with stone dust or sand and apply weed barriers and or geotextile soil stabilization. We can install almost any type of finish concrete including color additives and soft-cut patterns to resemble rectilinear stone patterns.
Stone and Brick Walkways & Patios in Washington, DC
Similar to work in concrete paving, IDS can also provide services to import proper below surface materials and grade the subsurface as needed, and then compact and prep the subgrade with stone dust or sand and apply weed barriers and or geotextile soil stabilization. We can install almost any type of finish stone or brick paving including historic or modern clay or concrete bricks or natural stone.
Masonry Stairs and Retaining Walls in Washington, DC
IDS services include new build of Brick and masonry stairways or refurbishing of existing stairs.
Similarly, we can also provide new build or refurbishment of Masonry and concrete retaining walls. The two pictures directly below show a Stone retaining wall in Southeast DC. That retaining wall was built with weeps to relieve hydrostatic pressure on the loaded side of the wall. Believe it or not, many of the retaining walls in Washington DC were actually built without any form of relieving hydrostatic pressure in other words they were built without integral weeps. In modern construction we would always install a hydrostatic pressure relief system with piped weeps through the wall. In the case of the example below The weeps that were built into the wall did not have a filtered aggregate stone on the loaded side of the wall and therefore became clogged with soils over time.
