Landscaping, Irrigation & Concrete in Spruce Grove

A new lot in Spruce Grove starts as rough-graded clay, and everything good that follows depends on what happens to that clay first. We cut the final grade so water leaves the house on every side and reaches the swales, bring in topsoil at a depth that will actually grow something, and only then lay the sod.

Doing it in that order is what gets a final grade certificate signed without a second visit. Doing it in the wrong order — sod first, grading later — is how people end up paying to lift a lawn they just bought.

After the grade is set we finish the yard: beds cut and edged, mulch or decorative rock, shrubs and trees chosen for what survives here rather than what looks good in a catalogue, and a path or patio if the plan calls for one.

The right time to install irrigation is before the sod, not after. Trenching a system into a lawn that went down last spring means cutting, lifting and repairing turf you already paid for, and the seams never quite disappear.

We design and install sprinkler systems for lawns and drip lines for beds, zoned so different parts of the yard get what they need, and we service systems that are already in the ground — start-up and head adjustment in spring, repairs through the season, and the fall blowout.

The blowout is the one that cannot slide. The first hard frost in this region can land in September, and a line still holding water when the ground freezes is a repair, not an inconvenience.

On new lots the concrete is usually an addition to what the builder supplied: widening a driveway that will not hold two vehicles, a rear pad, a patio off the back door, a path from the front walk to the side gate, or poured curbing to keep the rock out of the lawn.

In the older neighbourhoods it is replacement. Clay and freeze-thaw are hard on a slab over thirty years, and once the base under a driveway has shifted, resurfacing buys a season at most. We take it out, fix what is underneath and pour it properly sloped.

We run residential and commercial snow work through the winter with our own skid steers, plows and blowers. Residential means the driveway, the walk and the ridge the plow leaves across the apron; commercial means the lot open and the entrances safe before the doors do.

Contracts are set up before the season rather than during it, so a route exists on the first heavy snowfall instead of being built while the phone is ringing.