The Importance of Setting Heights when starting a landscaping project.
When embarking on a landscaping project, one crucial aspect is easy to overlook. Establishing the correct heights at the outset can make or break the aesthetic and functional success of your project.
Here's why setting up your heights first is so important:
1. Ensures Proper Drainage
One of the primary reasons to establish heights early on is to ensure proper drainage. Incorrect heights can lead to water pooling in undesirable areas, potentially damaging plants, hard surfaces, and even the foundations of your home.
By setting the correct elevations, you can create slopes that direct water away from your structures and towards appropriate drainage areas.
2. Improves Usability and Accessibility
Setting heights early ensures that your landscape is both usable and accessible.
Allowing you to manage slopes on pathways and minimises the number of steps required. Flatter is better right!!
Making deliberate height transitions between areas adds interest and enhances the overall functionality of an area.
3. Facilitates Efficient Use of Resources
By determining the heights at the beginning, you can make better use of materials that exist on site. Many nelson sites are on slopes and need retaining of one sort or another. Being armed with some good height information lets you understand cuts/fills and volumes of material required.
All this allows for more accurate estimates and reduces waste. This foresight saves time and money and gets the best outcomes.
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SLS team 💙🧡
