Landscaping in Cartersville, GA

The ground in Cartersville

Cartersville runs from valley floor to the ridges above Allatoona, and the lake-side subdivisions are cut into genuine slope. Red clay over rock, with grade changes of ten or twenty feet inside a single back yard.

What that means for the build

This is where retaining walls stop being landscape and start being structure. Height, surcharge from a driveway or a pool above, drainage behind the wall, and geogrid into the hill all have to be right, and an engineer gets involved sooner here than anywhere else in the service area.

The properties

Lake-side subdivisions, newer construction off Highway 20, and estate lots on the ridges.

What usually leads in Cartersville

Every trade is available across the whole service area. These are the ones that tend to carry a Cartersville project:

• Retaining Walls & GradingSegmental block walls, cut-and-fill grading and the drainage behind both. Georgia clay holds water and moves; a wall that was not drained is a wall that leans.
• Pools & Pool DecksPools, and everything that makes one usable: deck, coping, retaining, fence, grade and planting. Whether BDS is installing the pool or picking up where a pool builder left off, this is what turns the hole in the clay into a back yard.
• Hardscape & Paver TerracesPool decks, terraces, walkways and stepping-stone paths. Compacted base, screeded bedding, cut edges and a locked perimeter — the part nobody sees is the part that decides whether it is still flat in ten years.

All ten trades run in-house, so one crew and one schedule covers the whole job.

See the work

The featured jobs are documented before and after, from the same camera position. They are the honest version of what a finished project looks like.