Leveling yard - newbie question

[Anonymous]

I'm looking for a house, and I found one that have a large sloped hill in the backyard with steps that lead up to a flatter area. I like the house but the yard is a deal breaker and I was wondering if I can hire a landscaping company to level the yard? Do I need to get a permit for that? o is this too much work and should I keep looking for another house?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:18:59 here. We used hambletons. Really like the end product.

http://www.hambletons.com/

have you used their lawn service

I tried to but I was too far out of their lawn service area to make it worth it for them, which I completely understand. They did come to do two lawn services while I contacted and got back on the schedule of my old lawn guy. Needless to say, I am/was very happy with hambletons and had them do about $3k worth of landscaping/shrub installation in the Spring after my wall went in last Fall. I will continue to use them for more complex landscaping over my lawn service company.

Did you deal with David?

No. I can't remember the name of the man off the top of my head, but pretty sure it wasn't David. One of he Hambletons brothers dud the business/scheduling fir each of the projects. Another came with workers and worked on site for the wall installation and possibly a third brother (based solely on resemblance) did the shrub installation with another worker who was the site/project manager.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for those that had this done - how did the company compact the dirt for the new grade ? Machine (w/ roller??) or hand tamped?

How much has the new grade settled lower, if at all, since the work was originally done?

Pp here. I wasn't home when the tamping was done so not sure how they did it. The lower level of the backfill was the excavated clay soil, then the put down topsoil. There hasn't been a significant (if any) settling of the new level when measured against the top of the wall.

[Anonymous]

For those of you with short retaining walls - are they all going up? Our yard goes down (slope from the house to the back fence). I'd Love to put a short wall half way down the yard, so the top part near the house could be flat, and the bottom half could slope down, but I see how that could be a terrible saftey hazard - people tripping, kids falling, etc?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you with short retaining walls - are they all going up? Our yard goes down (slope from the house to the back fence). I'd Love to put a short wall half way down the yard, so the top part near the house could be flat, and the bottom half could slope down, but I see how that could be a terrible saftey hazard - people tripping, kids falling, etc?

You will need to install rails, like a deck

[Anonymous]

PP for leveling backyard for playground. Used Denchfields.