Stone retaining walls add elegance to your lawn while stabilizing sloped terrain. If you're worried about the cost, here's ...

For those homeowners who feel au naturel is the way to go, real stone affords a beautiful, substantial and timeless garden or retaining wall or even a flower bed border.

On the other hand, for a retaining wall over 3 feet tall, he is always going to recommend a concrete block core, complete with drain pipes, itself a far cry from our ancestors' dry stack walls.

For the homeowner, dry-stack walls have several advantages. Mortared walls require concrete footings reinforced with steel to prevent the wall from breaking up when soil settles over time.

If you want a walled garden paradise or just a bit more privacy in your yard, consider using old pavers to create a unique ...

Scott instead prefers to build dry-stacked stone walls. Like fitting a jigsaw puzzle together, Scott and his crew create a retaining wall that not only holds the soil back, it reduces drainage ...

A dry basement is superb. A basement that leaks is anything but! To keep the basement of your new house dry, several important design elements need to be included in the exterior drainage and gradi… ...

On this breezy day, Mr. Patterson works on restoring a dry stack wall in a history-rich suburb of Nashville. "It's a craft that's been going on throughout the world for hundreds of years, really.

For shorter, dry stack, walls like the popular Unilock style, a contained base of 10A, or similar, stone wrapped in a filter cloth placed on undisturbed soil that slopes to daylight can be a good ...

5. Do you want a dry-stack stone wall or a CMU (concrete masonry unit) block wall or a cast concrete wall veneered with real stone? 6.