Landscaping in Chattanooga, TN

The ground in Chattanooga

Chattanooga is ridge-and-valley country: Lookout Mountain, Signal Mountain and Missionary Ridge, with limestone and shale close to the surface across much of it. Soil depth changes sharply over short distances.

What that means for the build

Rock depth is the single biggest variable in a Chattanooga estimate. A pool or a footing that assumed soil and found limestone is a different project, which is why the ground gets checked before a number goes on paper rather than after. The payoff is that walls and terraces built on this ground do not move.

The properties

Mountain and ridge homes with serious grade, plus valley neighborhoods on deeper soil.

What usually leads in Chattanooga

Every trade is available across the whole service area. These are the ones that tend to carry a Chattanooga project:

• Retaining Walls & GradingSegmental block walls, cut-and-fill grading and the drainage behind both. Georgia clay holds water and moves; a wall that was not drained is a wall that leans.
• Pools & Pool DecksPools, and everything that makes one usable: deck, coping, retaining, fence, grade and planting. Whether BDS is installing the pool or picking up where a pool builder left off, this is what turns the hole in the clay into a back yard.
• Masonry & ConcreteAll applications of brick, block and stone, plus concrete work, laid by the same crew that runs the hardscape. Steps, veneer, columns, walls and the flatwork between them, built to match the house instead of fighting it.

All ten trades run in-house, so one crew and one schedule covers the whole job.

See the work

The featured jobs are documented before and after, from the same camera position. They are the honest version of what a finished project looks like.