Landscape & hardscape built for Clark County ground

We are based on NE 171st Street in Ridgefield and work across Clark County — Vancouver, Battle Ground, Camas, Washougal, La Center, Salmon Creek, Felida, Brush Prairie, Hockinson and Woodland. If you are just outside that list, call and ask. We would rather tell you honestly that you are outside our range than drive out and pad the quote to cover it.

No. We walk the property with you, talk through what you are trying to fix or build, and put a fixed price in writing. There is no charge for the visit and no charge for the drive, wherever you are in the county.

Fixed, and itemised. You get a written scope that says what is included, and a price that does not move unless you ask us to change the scope. Hourly pricing on outdoor work puts all the risk of a slow week on the homeowner, and we do not think that is how it should be.

It moves with the season. Spring and early summer are the busiest stretch and lead times are longest then; late autumn and winter are usually the quickest to get on the calendar. Call us with your timeline and we will tell you the real date rather than the one you want to hear.

Yes, for most of what we do. Excavation, drainage, walls and hardscape all carry on through the wet season — in fact winter is when drainage problems are visible, which makes it the best time to diagnose them properly. The work we do hold for weather is planting, sod and concrete pours during a hard freeze.

He runs the crew on site. The person who walks your yard, works out what it needs and prices it is the person who builds it. That matters most on the parts you never see — base depth, compaction, drain rock behind a wall — because those are the things nobody checks and everybody pays for later.

Our own crew does the landscape, hardscape, drainage and excavation work. Where a job needs a licensed trade outside our scope — electrical for outdoor lighting, gas for a fire feature, or an engineer for a tall wall — we bring in the right specialist rather than pretending it is in-house.

There is no hard floor, but very small jobs are difficult to schedule around larger builds, so we are honest about it up front. If a half-day repair is all you need and we cannot fit it sensibly, we will say so rather than quote you a price designed to make you go away.

No. We are a build company — patios, walls, drainage, turf, sod, planting and excavation. Weekly mowing and garden maintenance is a different business with a different rhythm, and a crew running a mowing route cannot also be excavating a wall footing. We are happy to point you toward maintenance outfits locally.

We tell you clearly when a job needs one and what it is for — most commonly taller retaining walls, larger grading jobs, and structures attached to the house. Requirements differ between Clark County and each city inside it, so the honest answer is always to confirm with the building department covering your address. What we will not do is quietly build something that should have been permitted.

It rains here from October to May, so a crew that stops for weather does not work half the year. We keep going through normal wet weather and stop for the conditions that genuinely damage the work — saturated subgrade that cannot be compacted, or a hard freeze during a pour. If we stand down, we tell you why and when we are back.

Yes, and it is written into the scope rather than added at the end. Spoils are hauled off, the site is swept, and we walk the finished job with you before we ask for final payment. Excavated soil is one of the biggest hidden costs on a landscape job, which is exactly why it belongs in the quote rather than in a surprise.

Yes. Plenty of the newer neighbourhoods we work in — around Ridgefield, Camas and north Vancouver especially — have material, colour or height rules for fences, walls and hardscape. Get us the guidelines early and we will spec the job so it passes rather than redoing it after a letter arrives.

Often, but we will look at it before we promise anything. If the base under a half-finished patio is wrong, or a wall has gone up with no drainage behind it, taking it on means being straight with you that some of what is already there has to come out. We would rather lose the job than warrant somebody else’s base.

Nothing formal. It helps if you know roughly where your property lines are, whether you have irrigation or a septic drainfield in the work area, and what the yard does in heavy rain — that last one is the single most useful thing a homeowner can tell us. Photos of the yard in February are worth more than a description in July.

Call (360) 600-7880 or send the details through the contact page and we will get a walkthrough on the calendar. Tell us what is wrong or what you want, and roughly when you want it done; we will tell you what it takes, what it costs and when we could start.