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Steps, walkway, and seat wall — tied into one grade
Block steps up from a path of hand-made pavers to a stamped walkway and gazebo seat wall. One compacted base under all of it, so it drains one way and nothing settles.
Owner-operated · Columbia, Missouri
Concrete, drainage & site work in Columbia, Missouri.
Flatwork, drains, and earthwork built by the hands that planned it. Patios, drainage problems, and site work handled right, built on a base that holds up through a full mid-Missouri freeze-thaw year.
What we do
Groundwork, done right.
From the base up — the concrete, drainage, and dirt everything sits on, and the patios, walls, plantings, and backyard it all turns into. Get the groundwork right and it lasts; cut corners there and you're tearing it out in two years. You deal with the people doing the work, start to finish.
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Concrete flatwork
Sidewalks, slabs, garage floors, steps, and aprons, poured on a compacted base with joints cut where they belong.
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Drainage & water control
French drains, area drains, downspout tie-ins, and re-grading that pulls water away from the house.
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Excavation & grading
Building pads, footings, backfill, and finish grade that sets up a clean pour or a yard that finally drains.
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Easements, culverts & right-of-way
Culverts, swales, ditch grading, and approaches tied into the county road, built to spec.
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Hardscaping & retaining walls
Walkways, steps, fire pits, seat walls, and retaining walls in concrete, paver, or Missouri limestone.
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Patios
Custom or off the catalog, poured monolithic over reinforced rebar mesh so it stays flat and tight for years.
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Tree removal, planting & remediation
Taking down dead or leaning trees, clearing stumps, and bringing tired ground back to life.
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Backyards built to disappear into
Patio, walls, plantings, and grade laid out as one plan that works as well as it looks.
Recent work done in Old Hawthorne
One backyard, start to finish.
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Gazebo seat wall
Segmental block wall on a poured footing, capped for seating, with a curved planter wall carrying the same block out into the yard.
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Stamped-concrete walkway to the back door
Monolithic pour over engineered reinforced rebar mesh, stamped in a stone pattern and colored to match the brick. Pitched so water runs away from the house.
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Hand-made pavers, colored one at a time
Every paver here was cast and colored by hand, so no two match and the walkway reads like natural stone. Set tight, sealed, and finished with a catch basin flush in the surface so water off the patio has somewhere to go.
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Stamped patio under the gazebo
One monolithic slab over engineered reinforced rebar mesh, stamped in a slate pattern and colored to carry the walkway right under the roof. Built to be sat on for years, not patched.
How we work
Small operation, by design.
We're a small crew, and you deal with the people actually doing the work — the same hands that look at the job, give you the number, and are on site when the concrete goes down. No sales rep, no subcontractors you've never met.
We sweat the parts you don't see — the base, the compaction, the fall on a drain line, the rebar and the joints. That's what decides whether concrete cracks and whether water actually leaves. We'd rather spend the extra hour on prep than come back and break out a slab in two years. And we'll tell you straight if there's a simpler, cheaper way to get where you're headed.
Fewer jobs, done right. That's the whole plan.
Where we work
Columbia and out from there.
Based in Columbia, working across Boone County and mid-Missouri. If you're nearby and don't see your town listed, ask — odds are we can get there.
- Columbia
- Jefferson City
- Ashland
- Fulton
- Centralia
- Hallsville
- …and the rest of Boone County
Get a quote
Tell us about the job.
A patio, a retaining wall, a drainage problem, a culvert that keeps washing out — send a few details and we'll get back to you to set up a walkthrough, usually within a couple of days.
Email us the details
or write to contact@groundanddownllc.com
or call us at (573) 355-7239