The Q&A Portfolio

Pittsburgh yards, built to last.

A working portfolio of completed retaining walls, paver and exposed aggregate patios, full landscape installations, and concrete work across Pittsburgh's South Hills. Every project on this page was designed, excavated, and finished by our own crews.

16+ Years building locally
20+ South Hills communities served
6 In-house service trades
100% Self-performed work
Projects by Service

Six trades. One crew. Every project, start to finish.

Most landscape projects in Pittsburgh touch three or four different trades, excavation, hardscape, planting, finishing. We self-perform all of them, which keeps schedules tight and quality consistent from the dig to the final mulch.

Materials & Brands

What our projects are built from.

We stick to manufacturers and material specs that hold up. Most of these names show up across multiple projects in the gallery above, Bethel Park, North Huntingdon, and Pleasant Hills all use materials from this list.

Retaining walls

Versa-Lok

Segmental retaining wall block we use for taller tiered walls and projects that need engineered reinforcement.

Hardscape

Techo-Bloc

Pavers, slabs, and wall units when the design calls for a refined modern look with a strong color palette.

Natural stone

Rosetta Outcropping

Cast-stone boulders that read as natural rock. Used in the Bethel Park feature project for two tiered hillside walls.

Engineering

Geogrid Reinforcement

Buried tensile grid that ties wall block back into the hillside. The reason walls actually stay where you put them.

Concrete finishes

Exposed Aggregate

Standard, decorative, and two-tone borders. The Pleasant Hills driveway uses a vibrant red aggregate border around a broom-finish slab.

Soils & seed

Penn State Seed Blend

Mixed with mushroom manure and laid over fresh topsoil. The lawn at the North Huntingdon project was started this way.

Edging

Belgium Block

Cobble-style border between lawn and bed. A clean, permanent edge that holds its shape through Pittsburgh freeze-thaw.

Decorative stone

River Rock & Granite

Black granite, river rock, and locally sourced boulders for dry creek beds, accent borders, and naturalized hillside transitions.

Our Process

From the first walk-through to the last sweep.

Every project in the gallery above ran through the same four phases. The order matters, half the reason landscape work fails early is that someone skipped a step at the start.

01

Discovery

An on-site walk-through, conversation about how you actually use the yard, and a look at grade, drainage, and existing materials that can stay.

02

Design & Estimate

A scoped plan with material selections, a clear price, and a sequence the crews can build from. No mystery line items.

03

Build

Excavation, base prep, hardscape, plantings, performed by our own crews. Permits and inspections handled when the job requires them.

04

Finish

Edging, mulch, cleanup, and a final walk-through. The yard leaves looking the way it does in the photos above, not in a year, today.

Where We Build

South Hills & the surrounding South Pittsburgh corridor.

Most of our projects fall inside a roughly thirty-minute radius south of Pittsburgh. The communities below are where the bulk of the gallery above was built.

Q&A Landscaping was founded by Quinten and Anthony out of Jefferson Hills and South Park, those streets are where the company started, and we still take a steady share of work there every season.

Since then, the heaviest growth has come from Canonsburg and Upper St Clair. Both have become regular project zones, with builds that range from straightforward concrete walkways to multi-tier retaining wall systems and full landscape installations.

Founded in Jefferson Hills & South Park. Sixteen years in, still designing and building landscapes across Pittsburgh's South Hills.

Ready to scope your project?

If you already have an idea of the work, start with one of the calculators, they'll give you a real ballpark in a couple of minutes. If you'd rather start with a conversation, reach out and we'll set up a walk-through.

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