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Westack follows all industry-standard requirements when building its hardscapes, including stone walls, stone patios, pavers, etc. In the event that, work requires engineering, Westack will perform the protocols indicated by the engineers and codes required by inspectors
If a plant or tree dies within one year, reach out to us. We can do an on-site review. Please send pictures and the name of the plant when you contact us. For all warranties, it’s a one-time replacement warranty. We encourage clients to plant those warranty replacements in the spring or fall, which are the optimal planting times.
Increasingly, projects in the DMV require permitting and engineering, particularly if they involve walls at a certain height and sediment control. All permitting and engineering is the responsibility of the client. Westack does offer permitting and engineering assistance for a fee because it is so challenging for homeowners. We work with specific permitting companies and engineers to get your project done. If you get another contractor who says your walls or sediment control won’t involve permitting, it’s a red flag.
We’re happy to work with clients. Things can come up in the course of the project that lead to clients wanting to make changes. We can work with you to make changes that are deemed appropriate within the scope of the project. Any changes can result in a higher cost for the project.
Yes! The estimate is free, and if it is determined that the client would be best served by a design, then the designer will provide a proposal.
Landscape project lengths vary. It can take 1-2 days up to months depending on the complexity and size of the project.
Installation times from the point of the contract vary on the season. They can go from 3-4 weeks in the winter and summer months to 4-8 weeks in spring and fall, which are the busier seasons. Additional wait times could be caused by the availability of plants, the permitting process, and engineering if necessary.
After every project, our crew will clean up and as much as necessary will attempt to restore areas disturbed in the course of the project, to include overseeding and oversodding if necessary.
It depends on availability. Call to inquire.
Yes, we will offer design expertise for a fee.
Many clients decide to do their projects in phases. We may hardscape in spring and plant in fall. Our landscape designers can work with you to determine the appropriate phases and steps.
Sure. Feel free to contact us
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to