A retaining wall can offer both functional and aesthetic benefits for your yard. Here's the lowdown on the two different types of concrete retaining walls.

Next, mark off the length of the wall in your yard using marking paint, before digging a trench to span the wall's design length. The depth of the trench should account for a base comprising 3 ...

A concrete retaining wall can last about 50 to 100 years, after which the degraded material must be hauled away for recycling or disposal, and fresh concrete manufactured to rebuild.

It's also the first cast-in-place, board-formed concrete house in Sarasota. In fact, the home is comprised of three primary materials: board-formed concrete, cedar wood and impact glass.

The company estimates that houses built using this technique can be erected in less than an hour and cost about one-fifth the price of more traditional, cast-in-place concrete methods that are ...