FCL Solutions

Recent work

The work speaks before we do

Finished projects across the North Shore and the northwest suburbs: patios and walls, full landscape builds, and the properties we keep year-round.

Before & after

The difference, same angle

Fence line, weed treatment

Fence line overgrown with weeds before treatment
Before
The same fence line clear after treatment
After

Front bed rebuild

Front planting bed before: sparse planting and tired stone edging
Before
The same bed rebuilt with new stone edging and full planting
After

Deck rebuild and stain

Weathered grey deck before work began
Before
The rebuilt deck finished in a deep red-brown stain
After

Lawn Maintenance

About this service
  • Freshly mown front lawn with clean mower stripes running toward a ranch house under a deep blue sky
  • Striped front lawn shaded by a mature tree, cut lines running away from the kerb
  • Corner lot mown in alternating stripes beside a two-storey house
  • Brick ranch with clipped junipers in fresh dark mulch and a neatly cut lawn
  • Commercial lawn beside a brick building cut in even stripes
  • Large back lawn under mature trees with a raised stone patio wall at the edge
  • Mown front lawn and parkway strip at a pale blue ranch house in full sun
  • FCL crew member raking a lawn at first light beside a paver driveway

Landscape Design

About this service
  • Rebuilt back garden: striped lawn, a timber-edged shrub bed along the fence and ornamental grasses by a block wall
  • Skid steer on a driveway beside a long run of fresh mulch ready for the beds
  • Before and after at night: bare front beds, then the same beds planted out and picked up by landscape uplighting

Hardscaping

About this service
  • Terraced boulder retaining walls with a cut-stone stairway climbing between planted beds
  • Cut-stone raised planter with a capstone edge, clipped boxwood above and flowering annuals at the base
  • Freshly stained deck in a deep red-brown, white railing and green canopy behind
  • The finished deck from the opposite corner in dappled afternoon sun
  • Irregular stone stepping stones being set into a bed along a front porch
  • Slow pan across a freshly stained deck

Brick Paving

About this service
  • Charcoal herringbone paver walkway running between two stone pillars to the street
  • Paver driveway in mixed greys with a matching block retaining wall along one edge
  • FCL crew member kneeling to set pavers by hand along a string line
  • Crew member cutting a paver to size with a block splitter on site
  • Red brick paver walkway in a running bond with a grey soldier-course border, planted bed alongside
  • Reclaimed brick patio part-laid in a herringbone pattern beside a covered porch

Tree & Shrub Care

About this service
  • Row of newly planted arborvitae in fresh mulch forming a screen along a property line
  • Mixed shrub and ornamental grass bed in dark mulch running beside a paver walkway
  • Mature hedging and shrubs shaped and cleaned up along a front walk
  • Large shrub pruned to a clean rounded form on an open front lawn
  • Trailer loaded with cut brush after a trimming job, parkway cleared behind it
  • Overgrown shrubs cut back along the side of a house

Irrigation & Drainage

About this service
  • Open trench along a house foundation with white drain pipe laid in and bedded
  • Deep drainage trench running the length of a side yard between house and lawn
  • Square catch basin set flush in the lawn over a backfilled drain line
  • Side yard restored and reseeded over a completed drain run
  • Downspout tied into a buried drain line with a fitted wye at the foundation
  • Drain grate set into a river-rock splash bed at the corner of a house
  • Two FCL crew hand-digging a narrow trench across a front lawn
  • Crew trenching across the front lawn of a two-storey colonial with pipe staged ready
  • Walking the length of an open drainage trench alongside a house

Pest & Weed Control

About this service
  • Heavy weed growth along a fence line before treatment
  • The same fence line cleared and clean after treatment

Snow Removal

About this service
  • Wide driveway cleared down to the surface after a snowfall, snow still lying on the lawn either side
  • Front steps and walk shovelled clean to bare concrete between deep snow
  • Plowed driveway and street with high snow banks and the FCL truck parked alongside
  • Plow blade clearing a residential driveway at night under house lights

Holiday & Permanent Lighting

About this service
  • Warm white roofline lights, lit wreaths and illuminated evergreens on a stone house at night
  • Permanent roofline lighting set to deep blue across the eaves and gables of a two-storey house at night
  • The same permanent system set to warm amber, lighting the roofline on an ordinary evening
  • A whole house front lit in warm white by permanent roofline fixtures, tracing the gable and the garage eave after dark
  • Evenly spaced permanent fixtures washing warm white light down the siding above a garage door at night
  • A long run of permanent lighting along the side of a house, each fixture throwing an even scallop of warm light down the wall
  • The same permanent fixtures set to purple over the garage and blue across the upper gable, showing the colour-change capability
  • Permanent roofline lighting set to red and blue beside a flagpole for a national holiday
  • The full front of a house lit in red by its permanent roofline system
  • Red permanent lighting picking out the gable and garage line of a house at night, flag lit alongside
  • Daylight view of the track being run under a soffit during installation, showing how the fixtures mount permanently rather than hanging as a seasonal strand

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