Arlington yards are rarely large — which is exactly why the stone in them has to be right. Flagstone patios with seating walls, stone and brick together, bluestone caps: built to turn a city yard into a room.
Real projects, photographed on site. Every one hand-set by Edgar’s crew on a reinforced, drained base.
Most patios are laid on sand. They look right for a season — then roots, water and the first hard freeze start lifting stones. Ours are bedded in mortar on a reinforced concrete base, so the surface stays as level as the day it was finished.
A seating wall needs a footing. A wall built on loose soil leans within a few winters. We pour a footing, build the wall, and finish it with a bluestone cap that sheds water and gives you a clean edge to sit on.
We dig to solid ground and build a reinforced, drained base.
Each stone is measured and cut on the wet saw to its exact place.
Every stone is bedded in mortar, not sand — hand-fit and leveled.
Caps and edges set true by hand — the finish that locks it together.
A clean site, an honest timeline, and a five-year warranty in writing — ten years on the base.
Yes. Walkways, steps, seating walls and repairs are a real part of our work. A small project gets the same base and the same standard as a large one.
Yes — the flagstone and brick seating wall above is exactly that. We match the brick and set the stone so the two read as one design.
A reinforced, mortar-set base resists far better than sand. Where large roots are close, Edgar plans the layout around them on the site visit rather than discovering them mid-job.
We also work in Falls Church, McLean, Alexandria and Washington, D.C. — and across D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia. See our work in McLean · Potomac · Falls Church · Washington, D.C.
Edgar personally walks every site before a single figure is written. Estates are accepted by private consultation — a limited number each season.