What we do
We build retaining walls, low elevation walls, raised planters, header courses around hardscape inserts, brick edging and setts. Where the architecture is brick, we match the bond. Where it isn't, we choose a brick that earns its place against the rest of the build.
How we approach it
Tight courses, level beds, mortar matched to specification rather than mixed by eye. Weep-holes behind retaining walls because hydrostatic pressure is what eventually pushes brickwork over. Movement joints where the engineering requires them. Reclaimed brick where a build wants to read older than it is.
Brick tells the truth about how it was laid. Always.
Materials
Ibstock multi (warm red, traditional aspect). Staffordshire blue engineering brick (header courses, edges where contrast matters, applications where strength and water-resistance dominate). Reclaimed Hampshire stock for historic-fabric matching. Dense concrete blocks faced with brick where we're hiding structural mass behind a finished face.
In practice
See Three-tier garden, Fareham 2026 for a solid dark brick frame around every tier, doubling as the steps between levels and edging the porcelain path. Or Decking to porcelain, Fareham 2026 for new brick-faced steps built under a porcelain rebuild. Or Full hardscape, Warsash 2025 for a Staffordshire blue engineering brick header course framing an Astro turf insert within porcelain.
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Where we build it
Brick is where local character shows most. Specialist brickwork in Locks Heath, reclaimed brick for Titchfield conservation gardens, walls and edges behind the terraces for hard landscaping in Portsmouth, and full builds for a landscaper in Fareham.