Walls & Steps

Sitting Walls

Improved functionality in your outdoor hardscape area

Sitting walls are a professional touch to any patio and they offer additional, functional sitting speace in your outdoor environment. Our sitting walls can be constructed in a segemented wall application using precast concrete blocks such as E.P. Henry, Belgard, or Techo-Bloc—or with a masonry application using cinder block, a scratch coat, and your choice of veneer stone with a bluestone treadstock cap.

Sitting walls have become a very popular addition to your traditional hardscape patio. The reason being, is you are drastically improving your sitting room. This is an easy and comfortable way to entertain a larger group of people, without additional furniture, taking up less space on your patio. Sitting walls also offer the opportunity to light up your space using hardscaping lighting features.

Our customers have found that this ergonomic use of space is both functional and efficient. Sitting walls are useful with outdoor dining areas, near fire pits, or for everyday use to use for further purpose with seasonal decorations and planted pots.

Retaining  & General Walls

A wall can help with retaining a garden, grade of ground, or a aesthetic feature

Retaining walls are one of the classic examples of a functional landscape application. Whether it be for drainage concerns, grading concerns, leveling a hardscape area, changing elevation, or any number of applications, retaining walls are functionally pleasing within the landscape. Retaining walls can be created using natural stone product in a dry-stack fieldstone look, or a more formal segmented wall.

Retaining walls have become a common feature within landscapes to hold grade, transition spaces, and create functionality. The height of your wall depends on the grade change. At Holly Days, we specialize in transit work to ensure your grading is surveyed to the proper heights. Our hardscape professionals have experience to make even the most difficult applications work with some amazing finished results.

Retaining walls create the opportunity to work in landscape lighting and offer a wide range of product materials such as segmented wall block, natural stone, and masonry veneer applications. Retaining walls require excavation, proper footing or base materials, and recieve a cap at completion for a finished look.

Steps

A transition that helps you get to your destination

Steps offer a transition in your landscape from one feature to the next. Steps are constructed using the proper base materials or footings, similar to a wall application. Steps can be constructed using a variety of segmented wall block such as Belgard, E.P. Henry, or Techo-Bloc. They can also be constructed like a masonry application using cinder block and veneer stone. Steps are capped for tread, grip, and safety.

Steps have become a common feature within landscapes to transition out of a home or from one feature to another. Depending on the grade of your property stairs may be essential in helping you get to where you need to go. Our hardscape professionals have experience to make even the most difficult transitions work functionally for your space.

Steps are an item that many homes need to upgrade due to deterioration and breakdown. This is an important feature to have strong and sturdy for safety in your landscape and home. We always like to exceed all ICPI standards when installing steps. We would be happy to help you learn how hardscape steps can help your home’s value.