Sherborn, Massachusetts · Middlesex County
Masonry and hardscape
in Sherborn.
Patios, walkways, retaining walls, steps and drainage — built by our own crews, for ground that freezes.
Price your project →Sherborn, Massachusetts · Middlesex County
Patios, walkways, retaining walls, steps and drainage — built by our own crews, for ground that freezes.
Price your project →Concrete paver, bluestone, flagstone or brick, set on a base built for the ground it sits in.
Front walks, garden paths and steps — the run people use every day and notice when it moves.
Block or natural stone, drained behind and footed below the frost line.
Paver and cobblestone, edged and restrained so the border holds its line.
Granite, bluestone and built treads, set solid and pitched to shed.
Foundations, columns, chimneys and facades in natural and manufactured stone.
The part nobody sees and the reason the rest of it is still straight in twenty years.
Every wall and patio we have taken apart failed for one of these five reasons. They are the same in Sherborn as anywhere else in New England, and they are most of what separates a job that looks right at twenty years from one that does not make five.
Compacted gravel, deep enough for the ground it sits in. Every course above copies the first one, and so does every mistake in it.
New England ground moves in winter. A footing poured above the frost line lifts with it, and the wall on top of it cracks — not that winter, usually the third one.
Saturated soil expands about nine percent when it freezes, against something that cannot move. Clean stone, fabric, and a pipe run out to daylight.
A tooled joint sheds water off the face of the stone. A joint struck flush holds it there, and held water is what freezes.
The top takes the weather and everything anyone sets on it. Pitched away, set solid, joints tight.
Sherborn sits between Dover, Natick, Framingham, Holliston and Medfield, and we build across all of them with our own people.
Frost depth here is set by the town, not the state — Table R301.2(1) of the Massachusetts Residential Code is filled in by each building department. Inland it is commonly 42 to 48 inches; nearer the coast it is often less. We build to the depth your building department gives, and we ask before we dig.
If something we built moves, cracks or fails in the first year because of how it was built, we come back and fix it. No argument, no invoice.
Trace your patio on a satellite view of your own property, or send a photograph of the job, and the page prices it. The on-site visit is free and it is what makes it exact.
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