Most property owners develop fieldstone or timber walls since they are the most popular materials in my location, but modular block and poured concrete or concrete block walls also are outstanding options. If your wall is two feet high, 1-1/2 feet wide, and 20 feet long, you are going to need to have roughly 60 cubic feet of stone. This will give you a nice flat surface to build the rest of the wall on. You can use little rocks to shim the stone so that it sits the way you want it. Just about every three or 4 feet, lay a tie-back stone (flat, lengthy and heavy) to present additional stability.

If your house desires a retaining wall, or if the 1 you have is failing, overview these descriptions of the 4 most common kinds: timber interlocking blocks stacked stone, brick or block and concrete. If you are making … Read the rest