Landscaping, Concrete & Snow Removal in Stony Plain

In the newer neighbourhoods the work usually starts at the rough grade the builder left behind. We shape the lot so water leaves the house and reaches the swale, bring the topsoil up to a depth that will grow grass rather than just cover clay, lay the sod, then cut and plant the beds.

In the older parts of town it is renewal. Beds that were laid out decades ago have grown into each other, edging has sunk out of sight, and lawn under a mature canopy has thinned to moss and bare patches. We rebuild those to a layout that suits the yard as it is now, with edging that holds and planting that is realistic for the light it gets.

Acreage work is a different scale again. More ground, longer sightlines, shelterbelts to work around, and drainage that has to be planned across the whole property rather than lot line to lot line.

Town lots get the usual: driveway replacement where frost and clay have finished off the original slab, front walks, steps, patios and poured curb edging between lawn and bed.

Acreage concrete is its own category. A long gravel approach that turns to mud every spring benefits enormously from a proper concrete apron and pad at the garage — a hard, drainable surface where vehicles actually stop and turn, rather than gravel that migrates into the lawn every year. We also pour shop slabs, equipment pads and RV parking.

Whichever it is, the base and the slope come first. Concrete poured on ground that has not been prepared for it cracks on the schedule the ground decides, not the one you were quoted.

Winter is where the difference between a town property and an acreage really shows. A town driveway is a short job with a plow windrow across the apron to deal with; a two-hundred-metre country approach with open field on both sides drifts in again behind you, and it needs equipment sized for that, not a shovel and good intentions.

We run our own skid steers, plows and blowers and take both. Residential driveways and walks in town, longer country driveways and yard sites around Stony Plain, and commercial lots and access lanes that have to be open before the business is.

Seasonal contracts are arranged ahead of the season so the route is set before the first storm rather than after it.

We install and service sprinkler systems for lawns and drip lines for beds, and we handle the two dates that matter — spring start-up with every head checked and adjusted, and the fall blowout before the first hard frost, which in this region can arrive in September.

Through the summer we also keep properties maintained: mowing and edging, weeding, mulch top-ups, spring and fall clean-ups, and seasonal flower rotations where the beds are meant to change over rather than sit.