Building a Reliable Block Retaining Wall!
When used appropriately, retaining walls are an essential landscaping item that can be used for aesthetic reasons and to make sloped terrain useful for garden beds and outdoor spaces. Langley r etaining walls are constructed to help with landscaping, hold back soil to prevent erosion, and allow you to contour slopes rather than mark property or function as a fence around an area. However, there are many factors to consider while designing and building a retaining wall, from aesthetics and material selection to controlling water runoff and the weight of the retained soil. Design Factor Retaining walls are fundamentally constructed to hold back soil, and the soil's pressure on the wall is significant. Only the wedge of soil between your wall and the steepest slope that naturally forms before existing soil collapses under its weight will be supported by your wall, not the entire hillside. This wedge presses against the retaining wall due to gravity, with ...