CarolinaFieldstoneHardscaping & Landscaping
Patios, driveways, walls and walkways, built right and finished clean. A real number before we start, and an answer the day you call.
Carolina Fieldstone is a hardscape and landscape company in Charleston. Nikita Parijenko started it at eighteen and runs it the same way now: turn up on the day we said, finish the whole job, answer the phone before the day is out.
Ask anyone here what went wrong with their last contractor and you get one of two answers. He stopped showing up. He would not give a straight price. We built the company around those two, and everything below is how that works in practice.
Learn more about usTwenty services in five parts of the yard, fifteen of them hardscape. We sketch the hardscape before we dig, and every job gets a real number before we start.
Five parts of the yard. Pick one.
The way in and the way around. Driveways and walks in pavers, concrete, gravel or oyster shell, on eight to twelve inches of base where cars go and four to six where people walk, and turf that stays green in August.
The part of the yard you live in. Patios, fire pits, kitchens and shade, laid on a base dug and compacted for the load, with the beds around them finished by the same crew.
The lines that hold a yard together. Walls that keep a grade where it belongs, river rock where grass will not grow, and fences with posts set to depth and the run strung true before a board goes on.
What the yard does after a storm and after dark. Drainage that sends water where it can go, light on the paths, the steps and the trees, and irrigation zoned to what is planted.
The living part, kept on a schedule. Lawn care edged every visit, new sod, beds in mulch or pine straw, and cleanups, for homes and for commercial grounds.
Four kinds of project, each one several services at once, the way most jobs go. Drag across any picture to compare.
Request an estimateA flat rectangle of grass, turned into rooms you live in.
Excavated and based in crushed stone, laid with turf that stays green in August, travertine set flush for a pool deck, and an outdoor kitchen under a new pergola.
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From a cracked stoop to a room outside.
A paver patio laid out from the back steps on a compacted base, a curved seating wall with a fire pit set into it, and new sod finished to the edge.
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A yard that held water, and a fence that had given up.
A French drain under the lawn that takes the downspout's water away, new sod where the mud was, and a cedar fence set to depth and strung true.
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Dead shrubs out, a new front yard in.
The failing shrubs pulled out by the roots, the beds re-cut and planted with young hollies and boxwoods in fresh pine straw, new sod laid tight to the walk, then kept on a schedule.
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Highly recommend Nikita from Palmetto Landscaping! He was so easy to work with and did an amazing job with our yard. He really listened to what we wanted and made everything look even better than we imagined. We're so happy with how it turned out and will definitely be using him again!
Thank you for helping us to trim the bushes, trees and cut the grass on a weekly basis. You are so easy and pleasant to work with! Highly recommend Palmetto Landscape. We have been using them for the last 3 years.
Ask a contractor in this city what something costs and you will usually get a site visit you did not ask for, then silence. The complaint people make here is not that the work is expensive. It is that nobody will tell them anything. Below is what decides your number, service by service, before you pick up the phone.
Running a business rather than a household? Commercial grounds and contracts are priced differently →
What sets the number
Square footage and what is built in
Digging and base work are most of the labor: four to six inches of compacted gravel under a patio or a walk. Fire pits, seating walls and steps are priced each.
Surface, base and the apron
Pavers, concrete, gravel or oyster shell set the range, on eight to twelve inches of base. Tearing out the old drive and building the apron are quoted with it.
Length of run and where the water goes
The outlet decides most of it. A street or a ditch nearby is simple. A lot with nowhere lower to send the water needs a different answer, and you hear which before we dig.
Run, material and gates
Most of the labor is in the post holes, so spacing moves the figure more than people expect. Tearing out an old fence is quoted alongside the new one.
The base, not the blade
Excavation, crushed stone and drainage are most of the cost and all of the reason the surface stays flat for years.
Square footage and frequency
Measured off the property rather than guessed from the size of the house. Weekly costs less per visit than every two weeks, because shorter grass is faster work.
Area, depth, and what is already there
Cleaning out old mulch and re-cutting the bed edges are quoted on their own lines, so you can drop either one and watch the number move.
What has to come out first
Two yards the same size can be double each other. The grass is the cheap part of a sod job and the ground under it is not.
Time since the last one, volume out
Those are the two things a couple of photos answer in about ten seconds, which is why we ask for photos instead of booking a visit to look at leaves.
Hardscaping, driveways, patios, retaining walls, irrigation and concrete are priced per job. Whatever the work, you get the figure in writing before anyone starts. It only changes if the job changes, or if we uncover something nobody could see, like buried rock or old concrete, and then we agree it with you in writing first.
Measured and marked outDescribe the property, or send two photos of it. You get the figure the same day, before anyone drives out to look at it.
The base, compactedWe tell you the day before you commit to anything, so you are not holding a price with no schedule attached to it.
Finished, joints sweptBeds edged, clippings cleared, driveway blown off, gate shut. The yard should look finished, not worked on.
Ask and you get a figure the same day. What we will not do is dodge the question, which is one of the most common complaints about this trade. Size and the state of the property drive most of it, and we will tell you which of those two is driving yours.
A patio, a walkway or a driveway takes a few days, most of them spent on the base. A weekly cut is one visit. Mulch and cleanups are usually a single day. Sod and turf depend on how much ground has to come out first, and fencing depends on the run and the number of gates. You get the number of days with the price, before you say yes.
The person who prices your job is the person standing in your yard. Call (843) 864-6504 and you get Nikita, not a dispatcher reading a script off a screen.
We clean up before we leave. Spoil and offcuts hauled away, pavers swept, clippings cleared, beds edged, driveway and walk blown off, gate shut behind us. If a neighbor cannot tell we were there apart from the yard looking better, we did it right.
You call the number at the top of this page and you reach the owner the same day. Nothing goes through a ticket queue, and nothing waits for Monday.
Nikita started the company at eighteen after watching this trade lose customers the same two ways: it stops answering, and it will not name a price. Call this number and someone answers it. Ask what something costs and you get the figure.
We are based in North Charleston and the trucks stay inside the Lowcountry. If your property sits outside the list below, ask anyway. A straight no on the phone is worth more to you than a yes that never shows up.
Hardscaping, ground covers, sod, artificial turf, cleanups. Anything a satellite cannot measure we price by hand, and you get the figure the same day you send this.
Want to know what moves the price first? How we price the work →
