Ongoing
Landscaping Works
Muthaiga, Nairobi County 2026
Landscaping, Cabro Paving & Exterior Works
External works get cut first when a budget tightens, and they are the first thing anyone notices. They are also the difference between a compound that drains and one that floods every April.
Drainage before surface
Most cabro failure is not the block — it is what is underneath. Inadequate sub-base, no falls, and nowhere for water to go produce a driveway that sinks and rocks within two seasons. We set out levels and falls first, lay a compacted sub-base to the loading the surface will actually carry, and only then pave. It costs more at the outset and it is the reason our paving stays flat.
Planting that survives the dry season
An expensive landscape that needs daily watering will not be watered by year two. We lean on indigenous and adapted species that hold up through a Kenyan dry season, and where irrigation is justified we install it properly — zoned, timed and maintainable — rather than leaving a hosepipe as the plan.
Compounds that take real traffic
A school compound takes bus loads, delivery lorries and several hundred pupils twice a day. A residential driveway does not. We specify block thickness, sub-base depth and edge restraint for the actual loading, which is why our institutional and residential paving specifications differ.
What this includes
- Cabro paving for driveways, car parks and compounds
- Earthworks, levelling and site grading
- Sub-surface drainage and storm water management
- Irrigation system design and installation
- Indigenous and ornamental planting, lawns and softscaping
- Gazebos, patios and outdoor living areas
- Perimeter walls, fencing and gates
- External and landscape lighting
- Water features
Proof of work
Landscaping & Exterior Works projects we have completed
Real projects from our portfolio, not illustrations.
Successfully Completed
Exterior Works
Ridgeways and New Rain, Nairobi county 2023
Successfully Completed
Carmelvale Catholic Primary School
Utwala, Nairobi, Kenya 2025
Answers
Landscaping & Exterior Works: common questions
Properly laid on an adequate compacted sub-base with correct falls and edge restraint, cabro will serve for many years with minimal maintenance. Laid straight onto poorly prepared ground it will start sinking and rocking within a couple of rainy seasons. The preparation, not the block, decides this.
Yes. We take on external works as standalone contracts, including on properties built by someone else. Our Muthaiga landscaping and Ridgeways exterior works projects were both external works appointments.
Hard landscaping — paving, drainage, earthworks — is best done in the dry season, when ground conditions allow proper compaction. Planting establishes best at the start of the rains, when new stock gets natural watering while it roots. On most projects we sequence the two accordingly.
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