Landscape & Hardscape · Cape Elizabeth, ME
Landscape & Hardscape in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Building landscape & hardscape in Cape Elizabeth starts underground, on granite and metamorphic ledge under thin coastal soil. Two Lights, Portland Head, and estate frontage south of the city. We hand-set every stone to suit the shingle-style and modern coastal estates on open frontage of greater Portland, and we build it to still be plumb in thirty years.
The honest numbers for Cape Elizabeth
We would rather explain the number than defend it. In Cape Elizabeth, the swing factors are access, excavation depth over granite and metamorphic ledge under thin coastal soil, drainage, and protection of what is already growing on the property — the stone itself is rarely the deciding line.
You get an itemized scope after we walk the property — what is included, what is not, and where the money actually goes. No allowances that quietly become change orders halfway through.
The whole Cape Elizabeth property, built as one
Sometimes the project is not a wall or a patio — it is the whole site. On rocky headland and open-ocean frontage south of Portland, we take a property from rough grade to finished landscape: drainage and earthwork first, because a landscape that fights water never looks settled, then stonework, plantings, and the details that make a yard feel resolved.
Working over granite and metamorphic ledge under thin coastal soil, we start under the surface so the finished Cape Elizabeth property sheds water, stays dry where it should, and never undermines the stonework above it.
How a Cape Elizabeth project runs
A job in Cape Elizabeth is a few weeks of trucks, machines, and people in your yard. We plan staging and protection before day one — drive plates, root-zone protection, a defined material area — and leave the site clean each evening rather than at the end.
The crew Cape Elizabeth designers trust
Cape Elizabeth is Portland’s estate coast, built on the same ledge as its famous lighthouses — new stonework here is founded on rock and built for the open Atlantic.
On full-site projects we are frequently the execution crew for landscape architects and designers — much of our Greater Portland work in ongoing collaboration with Jonathan Keep Landscape Design. We read plans fluently, flag conflicts before they become change orders, and build exactly what was drawn.
Beyond Cape Elizabeth
Cape Elizabeth sits in Cumberland County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Greater Portland — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
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Questions
Landscape & Hardscape in Cape Elizabeth, answered.
Most residential work runs one to three weeks on site, depending on size, access, and how much excavation granite and metamorphic ledge under thin coastal soil demands. You get a real schedule before we start, and we hold it — including the clean-up at the end of each day.
Usually, yes. We hand-select from regional yards to match color, cleft, and scale against what is already on the property — which matters in Cape Elizabeth, where the shingle-style and modern coastal estates on open frontage tend to be added to over time rather than replaced.
Both. We can take a property from grading through final planting, or come in for the masonry scope alongside other trades. We will scope it whichever way serves the project.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds landscape & hardscape throughout Cape Elizabeth — from Two Lights, Shore Road, and Delano Park — and across Greater Portland, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across Maine, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
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