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 ...

Q: I want to build a retaining wall that’s going to look great for years. At my last house, a short retaining wall I had around a patio started to lean out toward the lawn. The wall was but 10 ...

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 ...

I’ve watched many retaining wall videos that are filled with very bad information. I urge you to seek the advice of a structural engineer for any wall taller than 6 feet.

A three-foot-tall wall should be roughly two feet wide at the base, and one foot wide at the top. When building any wall, free standing or retaining, it is important to have each course of stone ...

At first, Cornerstone's retaining wall business started out slow, but by the second year business had picked up. Parrish estimates that in 2008, Sure Stone walls made over $500,000 in sales, and ...

Building a retaining wall out of pavers is a great way to upcycle old pavers or use up leftovers. You'll want to avoid this one mistake, though.