2. To avoid soil shifting and damaging the wall, retaining walls should rest on cut or undisturbed ground, not landfill, and have a footing roughly two times the width of the wall and as deep as ...

I want to build a retaining wall that’s going to look great for years. At my last house, I had a short retaining wall around a patio that started to lean out toward the lawn. The little wall was ...

These new wall systems, which employ mortarless concrete technology, are ideal for residential products. They are so strong that they are commonly used in commercial and industrial applications ...

We noticed that many of the properties had bulging retaining walls. We learned that it was due to the area’s geology and soil composition, and unfortunately, it made many homes undesirable. A local ...

Retaining walls cost between $1,000 and $10,000 for a typical 4-foot by 25-foot wall or around $5,500 on average. The overall costs depend on the dimensions of your particular wall, the wall style ...

In a city where officials say people are too often building first and asking permission later, Albert Pinkhasov and the $240,000, three-tiered retaining wall he built in his backyard on Lovett ...