Hardscaping & Patios Service in Lykens, PA
UDA Services designs and builds paver patios, walkways, driveways, retaining walls, fire pits, and stonework, with the base and drainage work underneath done properly. Free estimates, permits handled, and a workmanship warranty on the finished build.
Hardscaping Services Offered
At UDA Services, our crews design and install patios, walkways, retaining walls, and outdoor living areas built to hold up rather than just photograph well on handover day. Whether you want to sit by a custom fire pit, entertain on a paver patio, or work stonework into the yard, the same crews handle the design and the build, so nothing gets lost between the drawing and the ground.
Almost every hardscape failure traces back to the same few inches nobody sees. Base depth, compaction, drainage, and edge restraint decide whether a patio still sits flat after five winters or starts rocking by the second spring. We spend the time down there first, then set the surface. It is the slower way to work and it is the reason the finished work stays where we put it.
Patios
Patios built on a compacted aggregate base rather than dropped straight onto dirt, sized to the furniture and traffic you actually plan for, in pavers, natural stone, or poured concrete.
Paver Walkways & Driveways
Walkways and driveways laid with proper edge restraint and the base depth the load actually calls for, four to six inches under foot traffic, eight to twelve under vehicles.
Retaining Walls
Retaining walls built with washed stone backfill, a perforated drain pipe, and geogrid where the height calls for it, because water topples walls far more often than soil does.
Fire Pits & Outdoor Kitchens
Fire pits and outdoor kitchens built into the hardscape rather than set on top of it, with proper clearances, gas or wood, and counter runs sized for real cooking.
Steps & Seating Walls
Stone steps and seating walls that solve a grade change and give you somewhere to sit at the same time, built to consistent riser heights so nobody catches a toe.
Decorative Borders & Edging
Concrete or paver borders that hold the hardscape in place, keep mulch out of the patio, and give beds and lawn edges a clean line that actually stays put.
Why Choose UDA
- Every hardscaping project gets designed around your property rather than pulled off a template, working with the grade, the sun, the sightlines, and how you actually use the yard.
- Pavers, natural stone, and concrete get chosen for the exposure they will face, not for what is cheapest on the pallet that week or easiest to get delivered.
- We pull the permits and handle the code and inspection requirements, including the engineering a taller retaining wall needs, so none of that paperwork ends up on your desk.
- Our crews build to survive freeze-thaw cycles, which is what actually destroys hardscape here, through base depth, drainage, compaction in lifts, and joints that stay locked in place.
- Working out of Lykens, we know the soil, the grade, and the winters here, and we price and schedule the work against local conditions rather than a generic estimate.
Process Timeline
Explore Our Projects Gallery
The projects below are finished work, paver walkways through to full outdoor living spaces. Joint lines, edge detail, and how a surface sits against the house are what most people want to look at closely before calling anyone, so they are visible here.
Service Areas
UDA Services works out of Lykens and travels for the job, serving homeowners and businesses across Dauphin County and the counties around it. Patios, walkways, retaining walls, and outdoor living space all run on the same crews and the same standards, whether the site is ten minutes from the shop or an hour out. If you are not sure whether your address falls inside the range we cover, call and ask.
Areas We Serve:
- Lykens
- Elizabethville
- Millersburg
- Halifax
- Hershey
- Harrisburg
- Camp Hill
- Mechanicsburg
- Carlisle
- Surrounding communities
FAQs
These are the questions that come up most often at the estimate stage, so the answers below are the same ones you would get standing in the yard with us. If something about your site is not covered here, call and ask, because most of what decides a hardscape job is specific to the property it sits on.
Concrete pavers, natural stone including flagstone and bluestone, brick, and poured concrete. The choice usually comes down to the look you want, the traffic the surface will take, and budget. We bring samples to the consultation so you are choosing from real pieces rather than a screen.
A straightforward paver patio usually runs three to seven working days once we start. Larger jobs, or ones with walls, steps, and lighting tied in, run one to three weeks. Weather moves those dates more than anything else, and you get a schedule at the estimate.
Yes, and it is not optional on our jobs. The subgrade gets sloped one to two percent away from the house, and where water needs somewhere to go we add drain pipe or regrading. Skipping it is how a patio ends up pushing water at a foundation.
Yes. Fire pits get built into the hardscape with the clearances the fuel type requires, wood or gas. Outdoor kitchens get planned around counter runs, the grill and appliances going in, and utility routing, which is far easier to sort before the patio base goes down.
Built correctly they outlast most of what is around them. Durability comes from the buried course, the compacted base, washed stone backfill, a perforated drain pipe, and geogrid where the height calls for it. Walls fail from trapped water, not from the weight of the soil.