Hardscaping in North Yarmouth, Maine.
North Yarmouth is a town of houses on land, not houses on streets. The 2024 American Community Survey counts about 1,612 homes, roughly 95% of them single-unit buildings and about 87% owner-occupied, and the 2018 Comprehensive Plan puts about 92% of the town's area in forest, field, wetland or water. A patio here usually sits between a house and open ground, and it gets built on whatever that ground happens to be.
Our crews build paver and flagstone patios, cobble and paver walkways, thermal-top granite steps, fire pits, outdoor fireplaces and stone veneer. In this town the stone is the easy part; the dirt underneath decides how long it stays flat.
Lamoine and Scantic silt under the village fields
NRCS soil mapping around Walnut Hill turns up a lot of Lamoine and Scantic silt loam. Both series formed in glaciomarine or glaciolacustrine deposits, both carry a fine, illitic subsoil, and NRCS rates them somewhat poorly and poorly drained. Silt that holds water heaves when it freezes, which is exactly what lifts a paver field unevenly by March.
On those soils we dig past the topsoil and the wet silt to firm mineral ground, lay filter fabric where the subgrade is soft, and build the compacted gravel base thick enough to sit below typical frost movement. The surface gets pitched away from the foundation so meltwater has somewhere to go besides under the stone.
Sand on one lot, till and boulders on the next
The same survey maps Windsor loamy sand, an excessively drained outwash soil, in parts of town, and very stony Paxton and Woodbridge till on some of the higher ground. Sandy sites drain well but shift under a plate compactor if the base is not confined; till sites hide boulders that have to come out before anything is leveled. The 2018 plan also notes old stone walls still running along the roads from the town's farming years, and that fieldstone is often worth reusing as a wall cap or fire pit ring.
Anywhere near the Royal River, Chandler Brook or the East Branch, a patio falls inside the town's Royal River Corridor Overlay, where the Land Use Ordinance requires a Code Enforcement Officer permit for filling or earth moving of 10 cubic yards or more. That is a normal patio base, so the permit question gets answered before excavation starts.
Patios · Pavers · Fireplaces · Stone
How we handle hardscaping
From paver and flagstone outdoor patios to cobblestone entries, granite steps, outdoor fireplaces and fire pits, boulder installs, bluestone, natural rock work and stone veneer on house exteriors, we design and build hardscapes that hold their lines through Maine freeze and thaw. Every base is excavated, compacted and pitched for drainage before a single stone is set.
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