Retaining Walls

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Practical: Retaining a slope - providing grade differentials

Decorative: raised landscape beds - creating seat walls - stairs - terraces - integrated patios. Adding shape, color, and textures to blend with flowers, shrubs, trees, lawn features

Unique: Sculpturing a landscape - joining an art form in the landscape - Living Retaining Walls!

Planning & Design: The interaction of all wall components defines a true "wall system"

Wall materials: textures, shapes, colors, natural or modular
- natural stone + fieldstone + lannon + modular stone system
Placement for landscape value and/or for function

Engineering - the critical key to installation for longevity in form and function

Wall material and construction plan must be professional
Professional standards and engineering creates the blueprint for the site and the construction:
- Excavation study for to proper construction: depths, widths, drainage
- Backfills depths, heights, types needed for drainage and stability?
- Geogrids needed for reinforcing walls against tipping?
- Setbacks necessary to each course for stability and strength
The Base: the foundation to stability, strength, and longevity
- Right materials, right depth, right compaction
The First Course: Setting the Base
- employing laser level tools
- compaction during setting of base

Adding Additional Courses
- Anchoring to course(s) below
- Backfill materials right for drainage and stability of wall
- Drainage provisions: lateral, vertical and forward drainage provisions
Capping the Wall
Adding the Softscaping: plants and blooms and more