Essential Equipment for New Hardscape Contracting Companies
Investing in the right equipment is vital for any hardscape contracting business to run effectively, smoothly, and safely. Tools and equipment, just like employees, play an essential role in delivering quality, cost-effective, and timely service to clients. This video highlights the basic items needed to start a hardscape contracting business.
A hardscape contracting business should invest in screeding tools, which help level the gravel between two rods. Screeding is the final step in the base preparation for driveways, paver patios, walkways, and retaining walls. Screeding tools include retaining wall screed rails, zip levels, screeding rake, and an adjustable height screeding tool. Screeding is essential in base preparations, and these tools make it an efficient process.
Hardscape businesses also need paver scribes, which help with markings for perfect cuts. A workman using a scribe achieves smoother, easier, and faster cuts. There are two types of scribes; a compass scribe and a long curve scribe. Stone lifting tools are also essential, especially in lifting packs of pavers and removing stones installed with polymeric sand. These tools include paver lifters, paver extractors, paver adjusters, slab lifters, and stone lifting clamps.
