First and foremost do this. Request to see walls each contractor has done in addition to their price. We did an extensive stone wall on Cape Cod where the differences in price were astounding. Strangely the one with the highest price was in our eyes the worst wall. Quoted $13,000 in 1984, whereas the contractor we hired after seeing many of their walls charged $4,500. WOW!
To this day my wife and I can tell the walls our contractor built. Incidently we had them build a wall for us (double free standing wall) 4 years ago in our new home ($15,000), looks amazing.
I am a retired workaholic and continuing aquaholic.
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