Steps & Stairs · Hollis, NH
Steps & Stairs in Hollis, New Hampshire.
Orchard country with old walls lining every back road. Across Hillsborough County we build steps & stairs the slow way — excavated to depth over sandy loam over stony till, drained properly, and hand-fitted to the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage that define Hollis.
Our footprint around Hollis
Hollis sits in Hillsborough County, and most weeks we are somewhere in this pocket of Southern NH — which means shorter travel, faster site visits, and a crew that already knows how ground behaves around here.
Choosing material that suits Hollis
We buy from New England quarries and yards we have used for years, and we hand-pick rather than take a pallet sight unseen. For Hollis, that usually means matching color and texture to the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage already on the street.
Consistent risers on Hollis grade
Nothing gives a stone contractor away faster than a run of steps. We survey the grade across apple orchards and wooded rural lots on gentle hills, calculate the run so the risers divide evenly, and set every tread to that number — no fudging the last step at the top, which is the classic tell of a rushed job.
The foot notices a riser off by a quarter inch even when the eye does not. On garden stairs we keep risers low and treads generous, so the climb feels like part of the walk.
Building what was drawn
Designers keep sending us Southern NH work for one reason: what gets built matches what was drawn. We hold the spec, raise conflicts early, and document as we go — including on the Jonathan Keep Landscape Design projects throughout this portfolio.
A real foundation under every tread
Steps heave before anything else because they concentrate load on a small footprint. Set on sandy loam over stony till, well drained on the orchard slopes, that risk is real — so we excavate below frost, compact a structural base, and bed each tread so it cannot rock, settle, or drift out of line through the winter.
Solid granite treads, stacked bluestone, or dry-set fieldstone risers each get a different build sequence, matched to the antique farmhouses and custom homes on farm acreage of the house they serve.
Questions
Steps & Stairs in Hollis, answered.
Solid granite treads are generally priced by the riser, commonly $900 to $2,200+ per step installed depending on length, thickness, access, and the foundation work beneath. A full entry stair with landings is scoped as one piece of work.
Yes. Cleiton Landscape & Masonry builds steps & stairs throughout Hollis — from Hollis Center, Silver Lake, and Depot — and across Southern NH, and has since 2008. We’re licensed and insured, we work across New Hampshire, and we build from architectural plans with millimeter precision.
Apple orchards and wooded rural lots on gentle hills on sandy loam over stony till, well drained on the orchard slopes. That governs how we found and drain everything we build here — a proper base and drainage go in before a single stone is set, which is what keeps Hollis stonework flat, plumb, and intact through freeze-thaw.
Almost always because they were set on soil or an inadequate base and water is lifting them each winter. Resetting them on a compacted base below frost depth fixes it permanently — we will tell you honestly whether resetting or rebuilding is the better value.
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