Beautiful!

Can't hear anything but obnoxious loud music!

This was extremely helpful!👌🏽

Was hoping this video was more on what you two did to make this happen. Just as from an engineering perspective to determine the number of steps & sections of them for an easy cadence up & down . GREAT JOB , hope you found time to jump in the lake !

Wow! This was fantastic! Thank you!

Had to stop watching when you used buckets to move the sand… 3:43

Great video - very helpful. 2 questions. Do you ever add left pipe in the gravel to assist with drainage? Do you ever add landscape fabric behind the gravel to keep the dirt from getting to the gravel? Thanks in advance.

Very nice work sir but most of 5 stars for doing an honest job..

No glue?

What is the drill attachment you use for the edges to make it look more natural?

By far the best video on explaining how to do it and the job turned out amazingly beautiful

Great information!

seriously get to the point, you're not clever or whatever just Annoying Thumbs DOWN

do you have a video for walkways?

what kind of ground prep do you need for the walkway? I'm guessing that its less expensive and I like the look of the grass growing between the flagstones

Can I ask how much would you charge for that 4 pallet wall??

Would stabilization woven fabric help on a wall like this ? I am going to build one that is 48” tall …

Well done, absolutely beautiful work. Trying to teach myself how to be a professional stoner just like you guy’s🫵🏻😊

My driveway is lines on one side with a flat stone wall but behind that is a mature hedge which is on the neighbors lot. Stones are coming loose likely due to the ceder roots. I'd appreciate any advice you have to offer. Ken McDonell Gatineau Quebec

Cool channel!

Thanks

You mentioned proper drainage is needed for the wall, do you have a video highlighting this?

Great information! How do you deal with existing tree roots? We have a pin oak in our backyard, around which we've built a garden. We would like to add a stacked stone wall about 5 feet from the trunk, but we will have to work around a couple of large roots that are just proud of the surface of the soil.

A very helpful video! And excellent workmanship! Along with the gravel backfill for drainage, is a corrugated drain tile also needed at the base of the wall? And should any landscape fabric be used to between the gravel backfill and the dirt behind the gravel? Thanks!

Awesome work. I like how y’all take care of your customers like you would want them to take care of you.

Where do you usually source your stone?

Really great instruction. Thank you for sharing! I wish you’d gone up another one or two courses to position the top of the wall higher than the stairs though. It would have looked better aesthetically. But if what you built is what the homeowner wanted, you definitely knocked it out of the park. Well done!

Very professional work on this. And very helpful for the DIY project.

Great video! quick question. If all the stones are slightly different thickness, how do you build a dry stack wall to meet an existing height? I want to build a wall that will match the height/grade of my driveway. Thanks!

That intro was longer than my first marriage.

Thanks for this information, given so clearly. Now I know what I have been doing wrong!

Just a word to newbies doing this...the stones you see in this video look very flat and easy to work with. In a typical fieldstone pallet (I also used PA fieldstone and bought 3 pallets), the face of the stones will need significant work to use in the wall. Don't think that stones that you buy will be flat like this...they won't. I'm not knocking this guy because he is a pro who does beautiful work and this video was incredibly helpful to me. For those of you doing this for the first time I am just speaking one amateur to another....don't think that you are going to be stacking flat stones on top of one another. It is a LOT of work. But these walls are so beautiful, so classy...it is worth the effort. Good luck!

Beautiful work! If you are building a small garden boundary about 10" to 12" high, can you run the stone side to side or do you still have to run them in? Thanks for posting this, it is very helpful!

nice work . do you have another video showing us how to do the base?

Great work. From what I gather from traditional dry stonewallers in the UK… massive flaw here is the lack of topping or coping stones (or both). The topmost run isn’t locked in by anything above it and the exposed hearting will wear and displace due to time, water and by prying hands. Not to mention the rain/snow will get into the core of the wall more easily without a cover and causing failure with the freeze/thaw cycle.

Fantastic video and tutorial. Definitely learned a lot from this!

Do you have a video of the work being done on the steps.

Wow! the prices are doubled in two years

What type of gravel did you use for the backfill? Do you ever use polymeric sand for the top layer at all to hold it together? I think that’s what the previous owners did years ago but it’s starting to cave out as they put a tarp down between the dirt and rock wall instead of a backfill of rock

Do you have a video on laying those stairs?

Apparently there's a controversy in dry stone walling. Europeans tend to dig down to firm dirt and place their base stones directly on it, while Americans tend to dig down and use a gravel base to limit the effect of frost heave. Europeans defend their methods with, "Our walls have stood the test of time" (and they have!). I'm building a very small (9" high) decorative (not a true retaining wall) field stone (blue stone) wall to define the edge of a planting area. I want it to stand the test of time. Coastal Virginia soil freezes, depending on the severity of the Winter (and no, I'm not digging down 18" to avoid the freeze line of our coldest winters ever). Do you recommend digging down about 4" and using a gravel base (per your video), or can I dig down the same depth and build directly on the soil if it's firm? Thank you in advance for your advice and VERY helpful video!

Great video, thanks. 2 questions on base, what was the total width that you dug? And how deep, is first course below grade?

If I want to build a retaining wall at sitting height, what do you think about dry stack vs mortar?

Any reason you didn’t use filter fabric?

My question is to use a wall to hold back dirt, do you need drainage pipe and geotextile fabric to keep the soil from leeching through the front of the wall? Or does the water drain through the face of the wall?

If you wanted to plant tall juniper or Cedar trees behind the stacked retaining wall with the retaining wall, be abe to withstand the pressure? How far from the wall should yhe trees be planted?

Do you need to put sweeping towel behind the retained wall to divert water?

We want to build a small scale wall to divide the grass from a wild area of our yard. Can we use these techniques for something about 8-10 inches deep and about 10 inches high?

great video what was the tool you used for roughing up the edges Thank you

What is the name of the tool that you’re using at 18:30 ? To redefine the edges.