What goes behind a retaining wall matters just as much as the blocks you can see, and choosing the wrong material could ...

With retaining walls, one big consideration is hydrostatic pressure. If water is allowed to collect behind a wall, the weight ...

Last week I wrote about my recent trip to Southern California. I was fortunate to spend time with a dear friend and his wife. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a person who’s more in love with a home ...

Homes are not always located on flat lots. In fact, landscapes can feature hills and valleys, necessitating some extra steps when installing certain features. Retaining walls are often utilized to ...

Sure, you can go with your standard concrete block for that retaining wall. But there are so many other materials worth ...

Humans have been building retaining walls for thousands of years to create flat, or gently sloping, terraces on hillsides. A lot of my readers have them on their own property – or need to build one – ...

Many years ago, when I was young and foolish, I decided to build an 80-foot long terrace for fruit trees, and to edge it with a nice fieldstone retaining wall, using stones I could find on my property ...

A retaining wall serves many purposes. But without doing this important step, the soil around it can become oversaturated, ...