Project: Install flagstone patio with adjacent retaining wall.
Location: Phinney Ridge
Installation of a flagstone patio and retaining wall. Risers were purchased from Marenakos Rock Center in Issaquah, and garden wall from Pavingstone Supply Co. All 5/8 crushed substrate product is supplied in Ballard using Dirt Exchange.
Each material used was worked extensively using a Ridged angle grinder w/ attached diamond blade, and a team of cold chisels. For cuts on the garden wall blocks, I used a standup paver wet saw. The idea behind installing something made of concrete or stone is to view the product as being both ridged and flexible, because everything is – each in its own way.
Rocks and blocks at 90 degree angles are as a group uncompromising, but individually they have character and seem to exhibit a sense of wanting to conform to space. We chisel away the excess, at Adobe Landscaping Co.