Landscape · Hardscape · Concrete — Pleasant Hill, CA
Landscaping & hardscape
in Pleasant Hill
Pleasant Hill is ten minutes from our yard, which makes it one of the easiest places for us to work. Mature trees, homes built when drainage standards were different, and the same clay underneath everything. We design around all three.
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“We went from tired looking and outdated to a very professional looking landscape at the front of our home.”
Wil L. · Google review
Why Homeowners Choose Us
Why Pleasant Hill homeowners
hire DMG
Hiring a contractor is mostly a question of whether the person quoting is the person who turns up. Here is what you get with us.
One in-house crew
The same faces from the first walkthrough to the final clean-up. No subcontractors, ever — so nobody shows up not knowing what was agreed.
The price in writing first
A detailed written proposal before anyone breaks ground, and a fixed price we hold to. No surprise change orders halfway through.
Built for Contra Costa clay
Deeper excavation, a compacted base that absorbs seasonal movement, and joints placed where the slab wants to crack. The reason our work is still flat years later.
Design and build together
One company draws it and one company builds it. Nothing gets lost in the handoff between a designer and whoever ends up holding the shovel.
A reply within 24 hours
Every enquiry answered within one business day, and a direct line to the person actually running your project once it starts.
Licensed and insured
Fully licensed and insured, with references a few streets away. Ask and we will point you at work you can go and look at.
Client Stories
What our clients say
We let the work — and the people who live with it — speak for themselves.
What We Do in Walnut Creek
Every service, one crew,
no handoffs
Design, earthwork, hardscape and planting are all ours. That is why the drainage gets solved before the patio goes down, instead of becoming someone else’s problem after it.
Plantings, lawn installation, irrigation systems, and seasonal color — expertly installed and built to thrive through every Bay Area season.
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Landscape Design & Installation
Plantings, lawn installation, irrigation systems, and seasonal color — expertly installed and built to thrive through every Bay Area season.
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Patios, pergolas, kitchens, fire features, and pools that extend your living space — designed as a natural extension of your home.
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Hardscape & Outdoor Living
Patios, pergolas, kitchens, fire features, and pools that extend your living space — designed as a natural extension of your home.
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Site grading, excavation, and drainage solutions that protect your property and set the foundation for everything above.
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Excavation & Earthwork
Site grading, excavation, and drainage solutions that protect your property and set the foundation for everything above.
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Full-scale landscaping for business parks, HOAs, and corporate campuses — managed by one accountable team year-round.
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Commercial Services
Full-scale landscaping for business parks, HOAs, and corporate campuses — managed by one accountable team year-round.
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Privacy fencing, ornamental gates, and boundary improvements that add security, value, and curb appeal to your property.
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Fencing & Property Improvements
Privacy fencing, ornamental gates, and boundary improvements that add security, value, and curb appeal to your property.
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Driveways, foundations, retaining walls, and decorative stonework built to endure decades of Bay Area weather.
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Concrete & Masonry
Driveways, foundations, retaining walls, and decorative stonework built to endure decades of Bay Area weather.
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Safe, efficient site clearance, structure demolition, and debris removal — leaving your property clean and project-ready.
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Demolition & Hauling
Safe, efficient site clearance, structure demolition, and debris removal — leaving your property clean and project-ready.
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Questions about working
in Pleasant Hill
Have a question we haven’t answered? Call or send a message — we respond within 24 hours.
Contact UsPleasant Hill is roughly ten minutes from our yard in Concord. We reply within one business day and can usually walk the property the same week.
Yes, and it is worth designing around them from the start. Mature roots object to being cut and to soil compaction over the root zone, so we lay out hardscape to keep clear of both.
Almost always. The usual combination is regrading so the surface falls away from the house, a French drain to intercept what is already in the ground, and hardscape built to shed rather than trap.
Generally it comes down to height. California’s building code exempts retaining walls up to four feet, measured from the bottom of the footing to the top — above that, or where the wall holds back a slope, a permit is normally required. We confirm with the city before designing and handle the paperwork.
Depends on scope, access and earthwork, which is why we will not quote a timeline before walking the property. You get a written schedule with the written price, both fixed before we start.
Serving Pleasant Hill
Ten minutes from our yard
We run out of Concord, so Pleasant Hill is about as close as our work gets. Site visits happen the same week, and a one-day job does not carry an hour of travel in its price.
We are a design-and-build outfit, so one company handles the drawing, the earthwork, the hardscape and the planting. Every service below is ours — none of it is handed to a subcontractor once you have signed.
What We Run Into Here
What we run into
on these properties
Pleasant Hill lots have enough in common to plan for, and planning for it is most of the job.
Trees that were small in 1965
Pleasant Hill’s street and garden trees are now sixty years into their root systems. That is most of the character of the place, and it constrains where you can excavate and what you can pour. We plan hardscape around root zones rather than through them.
Creek corridors decide drainage
Parts of town sit near creek lines, and that changes what happens to runoff and where it is allowed to go. Drainage here is about giving water a legitimate route, not just moving it off your patio.
Clay under all of it
Contra Costa clay swells in winter and shrinks in summer, lifting whatever sits on it. Deeper excavation, a compacted base and joints placed deliberately are what keep a slab flat.
Recent Projects
Work from around
Contra Costa County
A sample of recent projects. Ask at the consultation and we will point you at finished work near you.
Also Serving
We cover most of
Contra Costa County
We run out of Concord, which puts nearly every town on this map inside a half-hour drive. That is the difference between a contractor who can walk your property this week and one who fits you in next month.
Not sure whether you are in range? Call and ask — and if we are not the right fit, we will usually know someone who is.
- Pleasant Hill — this page
- Concord — where we work out of
- Also served