Two properties on the same street can need opposite work depending on whether they sit on the rise or in the hollow. We walk and probe before designing rather than assuming the neighbour's solution transfers.
Where we work from: our shop is at 7980 OH-249, Hicksville, OH. Rolling Acres sits outside our home counties — call and we will confirm scheduling before you commit to anything.
Soil and drainage in Rolling Acres
Hardscape has to be detailed for a wet subgrade rather than an average one. That means over-excavating where the ground is soft, separating clay from the aggregate base with woven geotextile, and carrying roof water past the hardscape in solid pipe before a single paver is laid.
Terracing is usually the better answer than one tall wall. Two shorter tiers can avoid the engineering threshold, look better, and turn the ground between them into a genuinely useful planting bed — provided they are spaced far enough apart that the upper wall is not loading the lower one.
What Rolling Acres properties need most
Leaf volume under a mature canopy is several times what an open lot produces, and leaves left through winter mat under snow and cause snow mold. On a heavily wooded street two lighter fall visits cost about the same as one enormous one and leave the lawn in far better condition.
We are happy to bid against an incumbent. Send the existing specification and we will price it line for line so the comparison is genuinely like for like — and if something in it is unnecessary, or missing, we will say so rather than quietly matching it.
Winter in Rolling Acres
Equipment and route design matter more here than anywhere else in the state. A contractor whose whole route is sized for an average winter will be underwater in a lake-effect week, which is why capacity — not price per push — is the question worth asking in October.
Most of what protects a landscape through a hard winter is done in November — leaves cleared so turf does not mat, evergreens watered deeply before the ground freezes, and drainage outlets cleared so February meltwater has somewhere to go.
What Rolling Acres properties call us for
These are the services this ground actually needs, ordered by what the soil and terrain in Summit County demand rather than by what is easiest to sell.
- Retaining Walls & TerracingEngineered walls with real drainage behind them — turning slopes you cannot mow into space you can use.
- Drainage Solutions & Yard GradingFrench drains, swales and regrading that move water away from your foundation before it costs you a basement.
- Spring & Fall CleanupsThe two visits a year that decide how the rest of the season goes — debris out, beds reset, leaves gone.
- Tree & Shrub TrimmingPruned at the right time of year, to the right cut — so plants stay in scale instead of getting sheared into boxes.
- Snow Removal & Ice ManagementPlowing, shoveling and salting on a trigger you set — residential drives and commercial lots, all winter.
- Landscape Design & InstallationA drawn plan before a shovel moves — so the beds, grades and plant choices still make sense in year ten.
Why Rolling Acres property owners choose us
We know Summit County ground
Summit County sits in the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, where gravelly till on the kames and saturated organic soil in the kettles — two very different jobs on one property. We plan around that rather than applying a template written for another part of the state.
We fix the water before anything else
Every dollar spent on plants or hardscape sitting on ground that stays wet gets spent twice. On Summit County soil we diagnose drainage first — and often the honest answer is two downspouts rather than a system.
46 Google reviews, licensed and insured
Verbatim reviews from neighbours across the region, full coverage on every crew and machine, and financing available so a full plan can be built in one season.
One contractor for all four seasons
Landscaping April through November and snow and ice through the winter, from the same crews. The people who stake a drive in November are the people who mowed it in July.
Nearby places we also serve
Rolling Acres sits in Summit County. We cover these neighbouring communities too:
