Peachtree Corners/Dunwoody- Windsor Block Wall & Drainage

This client was getting his back yard washed away by all the surface water that entered his lot from the neighbor's yards in back. I installed a drainage system with around 150' of 4" ADS and 3 12" catch basins, then constructed a 100' Windsor Block Wall to corral the water and direct it into the drainage system.

Tree Pruning in Dunwoody-

Very manic Monday..a lot of running around getting materials for the week, meeting a delivery, etc. I did work in a pruning job this afternoon though. Red Tip Photinias were a very popular landscape plant back when I started doing this in the 70's. They were overplanted, almost all developed a fungal leaf disease, and most of them are gone. There are a few remaining-and the ones you do see here and there are now huge. This client in Dunwoody has a survivor and didn't really know what to do with it. The plant was taking up too much space and blocking the view of their house. I suggested we limb it up or "treeform" it to expose the inner branch structure and take all that bulk out of it that was just using up space.

Dunwoody Station-Making Progress

A lot of work done in the last two days..I'm tired! Should finish with this job tommorow. Have dug trenches for and laid 200' of pipe, removed about 100' of old pipe , moved 3 yards of gravel via wheelbarrow and...have everything covered up and ready for final grade and clean up. The hardest part today was getting the older AC units raised and leveled without harming all the pipe/connections attached to them. This was necessary in order to raise the grade a bit along that side of the house. The river rock path was installed over the part of the French Drain that leads to the back gate.

Dunwoody Station

This project is another drainage solution job. Client is getting water in the basement and the first course of action is to get as much of the water away from the foundation as possible. I will be raising the grade and a couple of AC units along the side of the house-and running two drain lines from the front corner to the back of the back yard. One is all solid and will drain the two downspouts on that side-the other is a perforated line for 50' encased in gravel as a French Drain then carried the final 50' as a solid line. I am running the two 4" lines in the same trench-that's is why it is 18-20" wide. As you can see from that back of the van-I have a lot of pipe to install!

Dunwoody Sod Install

Dunwoody Sod Prep

This is the same Dunwoody project I did a dry creek bed/drainage solution for last month. Installing about 2500' of Emerald Zoysia sod tomorrow..the prep work has consisted mainly of filling and leveling. The old yard had some uncomfortable slopes and a lot of exposed roots. The old turf/weeds were sprayed with herbicide well in advance of the photographed work below. On Monday we brought in 15 yards of red clay fill to cover the roots and help level the yard to more a more usable grade. Today we brought in 8 yards of topsoil (bottom pic) for the final grading.