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Rock Solid Excavation builds retaining walls that do real work — sea walls along the water, natural stone walls, and high-format engineered block for serious load and elevation change. A wall holds back a hillside, protects a shoreline, stops erosion, or turns a useless slope into usable space. Get the drainage and structure right and it lasts; get them wrong and Michigan freeze-thaw takes it apart. Freeze, thaw, repeat — built to take it.
What Fenton ground does to this job
Fenton is home base for Rock Solid Excavation. This is where John lives and works, so when you call about a project here, you're talking to a contractor who knows the local clay, the lake country, and exactly how a Fenton winter chews up anything that wasn't built right. Freeze, thaw, repeat — built to take it.
Because we're right here, Fenton gets our fastest response and our shortest haul on equipment. We handle the full range of dirt and stone work for homeowners and commercial properties, from a new gravel driveway to a full lakefront beach. Whatever's going on with your ground, we can usually get eyes on it the same week.
How we build it
Different jobs call for different walls. We match the wall to the load, the elevation change, and the setting — whether that's a lakefront edge taking wave and ice or a backyard slope you want to flatten out into usable ground.
A retaining wall doesn't fail because of what's in front of it — it fails because of the water behind it. When water builds up behind a wall and freezes, the pressure pushes the wall out, bows it, and cracks it apart. So we build drainage into every wall: the right backfill, drainage behind the face, and a base that won't shift with frost. Combined with proper structure for the load, that's what keeps a wall standing through our winters.
Why Fenton property owners call us
Excavation, hardscape, retaining walls, septic and site work in Fenton, MI. Freeze, thaw, repeat — built to take it.
Free estimate in Fenton.
(810) 577-6228 example build
Frequently asked questions
Do you work in Fenton?
Yes. Fenton is inside our normal service radius out of Fenton.
Is an estimate free in Fenton?
Yes, free and on-site.
What's the biggest risk on this kind of job in Michigan?
Water and freeze-thaw, every time. Drainage and base prep are what separate a wall or driveway that lasts from one that moves in three winters.
Residential or commercial?
Both.