Outdoor Lighting
Low-voltage landscape lighting for steps, paths, walls and trees around Beckley and southern West Virginia. We plan the lights with the hardscape and set them in during the build.
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A paver walkway gives you a firm, level path from the driveway to the door. It replaces the muddy track worn across the grass and the slick slope with no safe way down. Many yards around Beckley sit on a hillside, so the path often needs outdoor steps too. We build paver walkways and sidewalks, and we set stone steps into the slope.
Veridian Corp designs and builds walkways and steps for homes and businesses. Beckley sits at the center of our service area, which reaches from Summersville to Princeton. Walkways and steps are part of our work as a landscaping contractor in Beckley. Call or text (304) 237-1212, and we look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.
Tell us about the patio, wall, planting or clearing job and where the property is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.
The base under a paver walkway does most of the work. We dig out the soft topsoil and build a base of crushed stone, compacted in layers. Paver industry guidance calls for at least 4 inches of compacted base over well-drained soil. In cold climates, it calls for a thicker base where the ground stays wet or weak.
About an inch of bedding sand goes over the base. The concrete pavers go down on top in the pattern you pick. An edge restraint holds each side, and sand swept into the joints locks the pavers together. The finished walkway gets a pitch of at least 1.5 percent so rain runs off.
Most Beckley yards sit on well-drained silt loam over shale or sandstone, often within about three feet. Digging a base there can turn up rock and flat stone fragments. On a slope, the walkway pitches so rain runs away from the house. Where it meets a paver patio out back, the base and the grade carry straight through.
The federal soil survey puts about a third of the land in Beckley on slopes of 15 percent or more. On ground like that, outdoor steps carry the walkway up the hill. We set stone steps into a hillside and build steps up to a door or down to a patio.
Steps can also be built into a retaining wall on a sloped lot. The wall holds the hill, and the steps climb through it. Even risers matter most, since a foot expects each step to match the last one. A long climb is easier with a landing partway up.
Beckley and Raleigh County have both adopted the 2018 International Residential Code. For stairs it covers, risers top out at 7 3/4 inches and treads run at least 10 inches deep. In one flight, the tallest riser can be no more than 3/8 inch taller than the shortest. Whether a set of garden steps falls under it is the local office's call.
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for the Beckley airport show about 56 inches of snow a year. The low hits freezing on more than 100 days a year. Water trapped under a walkway can freeze and push pavers out of line. A thick, well-drained base and a steady pitch give that water a way out.
Outdoor steps get the same base and pitch as the walkway. A step that heaves even a little is easy to trip on. Water that pools on a tread turns to ice.
Paver guidance also says base stone should never go down over frozen ground. Fall is Beckley's driest season in NOAA's normals, and we build hardscapes into late fall. Winter is our snow season.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 40 miles around Beckley across southern West Virginia.
(304) 237-1212From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (304) 237-1212, or send the form. Tell us what you want done and where the property is.
We come out and look at the site. What we see there shapes the plan and the price.
We work out the plan and give you a free estimate. The quote comes to you in writing.
We set a start date with you. Then we do the work the way we planned it.
We clean up the site and haul off the debris. Then we go over the finished work with you.
Common questions about walkways and steps around Beckley and the rest of southern West Virginia. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Low-voltage landscape lighting for steps, paths, walls and trees around Beckley and southern West Virginia. We plan the lights with the hardscape and set them in during the build.
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We deliver and plant Green Giant arborvitae for privacy screens around Beckley and southern West Virginia. Planting beds and spring color can go in with the row.
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We clear brush and overgrowth from lots and fence lines around Beckley. The machine pulls the stumps and roots, and we haul the debris off.
Learn MoreWe plan the landscape with you, then build it. The design and the install stay with one company.
We look at the job before we price it. You get a free estimate, and the quote comes in writing.
We own the machinery for clearing and grading. The company that gets the ground ready can also build the patio and plant the beds.
Financing is available. Ask about it when we put your quote in writing.
Send the form with a few details about the job, and we set up a time to look at it. You can also call or text (304) 237-1212.
Tell us about the patio, wall, planting or clearing job and where the property is. We look at the job and put a free estimate in writing.