(412) 268-0406
A paver patio by M.S.S Landscaping with a round gas fire pit and four lit stone pillars
M.S.S Landscaping LLC · Heidelberg, PA

Patios that laststart underground.

Paver patios, retaining walls, pillars and gas fire pits across the South Hills — and the excavation, grading and drainage work that holds them up.

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Grade

Everything you can see is standing on something you can't.

Most of a good patio is buried. So is most of the reason a bad one heaves, sinks or holds water. M.S.S Landscaping does both halves of the job — the finished stone you sit on, and the excavation, grading and drainage underneath it.

Free estimates, anywhere in the service area.

01 / Above grade

What you see

The outdoor living space itself — laid, set and lit.

A curved paver walkway and block steps up to a brick house, built by M.S.S Landscaping
Service 01

Patios, walkways & steps

Paver patios, walkways and steps — the surface, the edges and the base beneath it. Power washing and sealing to keep them looking new.

Two tiers of block retaining wall with stone boulders and red rock, built by M.S.S Landscaping
Service 02

Retaining walls & pillars

Walls that hold a grade back, and matching pillars to finish the corners and entries.

A gas fire pit burning on a paver patio between lit stone pillars, built by M.S.S Landscaping
Service 03

Fire pits & outdoor lighting

Built into the patio and the pillar work, and lit so the space still works after the sun goes down.

A black aluminum fence and gate with stepping stones, installed by M.S.S Landscaping
Service 04

Fence installations

Fences and gates, set to the grade and the walls around them.

Grade — below this line
02 / Below grade

What holds it up

Water, soil and slope. Get these wrong and the stone above them doesn't stand a chance.

A French drain trench lined with fabric, with perforated pipe bedded in gravel
Service 05

French drains & drainage correction

Find out where the water is stopping, and give it somewhere else to go.

An M.S.S Landscaping skid steer cutting and grading a back yard slope
Service 06

Excavating & grading

Cut it, move it, re-shape it, and put good soil back on top.

New lawn coming in beside a curved block retaining wall and a black gate
Service 07

Seeding & sod

A new lawn by seed or sod, set to a slope that carries water away from the house.

Upper St. Clair · Job file

A back lawn that took days to drain.

Runoff was coming off the upper hillside and off nearby construction. After a big storm the back lawn would take days to drain and settle.

Just a few inches underground was the reason: a layer of shale rock. The water couldn't settle anywhere but on the surface.

We graded the area, added a few inches of topsoil, and sloped the new lawn away from the foundation to a drain — redirecting the water to an exit pipe out to the front lawn.

Fig. 01 — Section through the back lawn
Foundation Runoff from the upper hillside Standing water Days to drain after a storm Layer of shale Water has nowhere to go Graded & sloped Away from the foundation A few inches of new topsoil French drain Exit pipe to the front lawn Layer of shale
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“Grandview / Black Walnut color combination with the Pillars and gas fire pit”

That's how M.S.S describes their own finished patio — by the manufacturer and the exact colour blend. R.I. Lampus Company pavers, Grandview and Black Walnut, run together with matching pillars and a gas fire pit.

Contractors who name their materials tend to be the ones who chose them on purpose.

From the crew's own project post
Back at the surface
03 / The work

Finished ground

Walls, patios, steps, drainage and new lawns — finished work from M.S.S Landscaping jobs.

A planted slope bed with a dry-stacked stone wall, stepping stones and a striped lawn
A circular paver patio with a fire pit below a block retaining wall and terraced planting beds
A new paver patio along a block retaining wall beside a brick house
Stone slab steps on block risers climbing a mulched slope
A river rock drainage channel between a mulched slope and the lawn
A river rock swale edged with boulders along a back yard slope
A long stepped block retaining wall holding back a mulched hillside
A block seat wall around a freshly seeded yard
A regraded back yard seeded and covered in straw
04 / Everything we do

Services

Residential and commercial. Fully insured. Free estimates.

05 / Where we work

Service area

Heidelberg/Carnegie/Mt. Lebanon/Upper St. Clair/Scott Township/Baldwin/South Fayette/Peters Township/Oakdale/Bridgeville/Presto/McMurray

M.S.S Landscaping LLC is a service-area business based in Heidelberg, PA. We come to you — call or message for a free estimate.

06 / Contact

Tell us what the ground is doing. Free estimate.

A patio, a wall, a fire pit — or a back yard that won't drain. Call, text on WhatsApp, or send a message below and we'll come look.

Free estimates

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