Bennett Lawn and Landscape in Ottawa has reached its fifth year in business, marking the milestone with a review of completed residential projects spanning interlock driveways, patios, and outdoor living spaces throughout Ottawa communities. The company, which began operations serving a small group of homeowners, has since grown into one of the area's established residential landscape contractors in Ottawa, expanding its service area to include Kanata, Barrhaven, Stittsville, and surrounding neighborhoods.
Since its founding, the company has focused primarily on hardscape work, including interlock installation, retaining walls, and patio construction. The anniversary comes as demand for outdoor living upgrades continues to rise across the region, with homeowners increasingly investing in interlock driveways and walkways as an alternative to asphalt and poured concrete. That shift has been reflected in the volume and scope of projects completed by the company over the past five years, according to the business.
Part of that growth has come from an increase in requests for interlock repair services, as installations from prior decades begin to show wear, settling, and drainage issues. Rather than limiting its work to new builds, the company has built out a dedicated repair and restoration process for existing interlock surfaces, addressing problems such as uneven pavers, weed growth between joints, and erosion beneath driveways and patios.
The company has also expanded the range of hardscape services it offers alongside interlock work, including retaining wall construction, drainage correction, and small-scale water features such as ponds and fountains. That broader service mix has allowed the business to take on multi-phase backyard renovations rather than single-element jobs, with several recent projects combining a new patio, a retaining wall, and updated pathway interlock into one coordinated design.
"Over the past five years, our focus has stayed the same: build hardscape work that holds up through Ottawa winters," said Isaac Bennett, owner of Bennett Lawn and Landscape. "A large share of the calls we get now are from homeowners whose interlock was installed ten or fifteen years ago and needs to be releveled or rebuilt properly, not just patched over."
The company's five-year project history includes interlock driveways, walkways, retaining walls, and water feature installations for homeowners across Ottawa, alongside a smaller number of larger backyard renovation projects that combine several hardscape elements into a single design. Bennett Lawn and Landscape is one of the hardscape contractors handling both new installations and repair work, the company has framed its anniversary around the range of projects completed rather than a single flagship job.
Isaac Bennett added that the company's approach has remained centered on proper base preparation and drainage planning, two factors commonly cited as causes of interlock failure in the region's freeze-thaw climate. "Most of the repair calls we get trace back to base work that wasn't done the first time properly," Isaac Bennett said. "We try to correct that root cause rather than just resetting the surface pavers and hoping it holds."
The company noted that seasonal timing plays a role in how it schedules work, with spring and early summer typically reserved for new installations and fall bookings increasingly going toward repair and releveling projects before winter freeze-thaw cycles set in. That scheduling pattern, the company said, has become more pronounced over the past two years as more homeowners plan interlock repairs ahead of the season rather than after damage appears.
Looking ahead, the company said it plans to continue expanding its repair and restoration capacity alongside new-build work, citing steady year-over-year demand for both services since it opened five years ago.
Bennett Lawn and Landscape is a residential landscaping and hardscape company serving homeowners across Ottawa, offering interlock installation and repair, patio and walkway construction, retaining walls, and water feature design.
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For more information about Bennett Lawn and Landscape, contact the company here:
Bennett Lawn and Landscape
Isaac Bennett
613-795-2017
bennett.lawn.landscape@gmail.com
1101 D Stittsville Main Street, Ottawa, ON K0A 1L0, Canada
