Landscaping and masonry in Mamaroneck, NY

Ida put the Mamaroneck and Sheldrake rivers through living rooms, and the storms since have kept the lesson fresh. The Army Corps is rebuilding the channel; what happens on your lot is still up to your grade.

We rebuild yards to move water on purpose: regrading away from the foundation, downspouts extended past the beds, swales and rain gardens where they fit, French drains and dry wells where they genuinely help. None of it stops a river. All of it decides what an ordinary storm does to your basement.

The village is spending millions on concrete walls along the river because walls are what hold ground against water. The residential version is the same physics: retaining walls with drainage behind the face, raised patios that keep living space above the wet, steps and walks reset on bases that frost and saturation cannot heave.

We build and repair all of it, in stone that suits the house.

Orienta, Shore Acres and the harbor blocks take real salt exposure, and planting there is its own list. The inland half of town grows things the shore side cannot keep alive.

We plant by exposure, structure beds so tough material shelters soft, and say plainly at the estimate what will not survive the spray.

Water, exposure and access set the number on both sides of town.