METROPOLITAN STONE

Description of Work: Mark and Dan do quality work and take pride in their art of stonework. They demoed are ugly, old concrete steps,poured some new ones then took great care and designed a beautiful overlay of bluestone on the steps which mirrored our bluestone front walk. They look wonderful and we are very happy with the finished product. They also recommended someone to help us finish our bluestone patio after I threw my back out. They made a call to someone they knew and that person came out the same day and gave us an estimate. I highly recommend Metropolitan Stone for honesty and high quality work. I still admire our steps every time I walk in or out.

Description of Work: Mark & his crew had already made a small patio out our back door. We found out after 2 summers of use that the patio wasn't big enough for our large family summer functions. We contacted them again to expand the one patio & connect it with the other patio we have on the side of our home. In doing so, we had to account for the water run off from heavy rains & from winter melt. They were very clever in how they expanded the patio in back. The original patio was slanted away from the house, the new part was slanted slightly toward the house with a the whole thing slanted toward the rock garden/dry river bed. We have NEVER had any water problems since this has been built. They built an additional retaining wall and walkway connecting the two patios. All the water drains quickly into the rock garden. We have the best outdoor living space in the city of Minneapolis! They also repaired some of our rock steps that have cracked over the 90 years of our house's life. They also built a small terraced area on our back hill.

Description of Work: We were getting water in our basement every spring. The problem was on the north side where the ground stayed frozen and the yard sloped at about a 40 degree pitch to the house. We needed the back side walk removed, the area graded away from the house, a patio put in and some retaining walls placed in the yard up the hill to stem the run-off.