Our retaining & rockeries walls specialists are experts at constructing walls that blend in perfectly with your surrounding landscape design. We build retaining & rockeries walls for both residential and commercial properties. We'll build you a wall to support vertical grade changes, prevent soil erosion and downward slope movement, or make landscaping tiers. We use the most common building materials for this application such as: masonry, interlocking blocks, natural stone and interlocked bricks.
Retaining & Rockeries Walls stability is enhanced by sloping the wall’s face to create a setback or batter. A gravity retaining wall relies on its own weight to hold back the forces of the soil, and the internal leverage of earth pressure can be quite significant. We never just slap together a wall – our engineers determine location, size, slope, drainage systems, concrete density, and steel reinforcement, based on soil reports and your specific needs.
Marysville Landscaping can build retaining & rockeries walls to make useful space in your yard, to reinforce the slope around the foundation in order to add a second story to an existing structure, build an underground retaining wall to help excavation for building very effective wine cellars, reinforce existing retaining walls or anything else you may need when it comes to retaining & rockeries walls.
Retaining & Rockeries Walls stability is enhanced by sloping the wall’s face to create a setback or batter. A gravity retaining wall relies on its own weight to hold back the forces of the soil, and the internal leverage of earth pressure can be quite significant. We never just slap together a wall – our engineers determine location, size, slope, drainage systems, concrete density, and steel reinforcement, based on soil reports and your specific needs.
Marysville Landscaping can build retaining & rockeries walls to make useful space in your yard, to reinforce the slope around the foundation in order to add a second story to an existing structure, build an underground retaining wall to help excavation for building very effective wine cellars, reinforce existing retaining walls or anything else you may need when it comes to retaining & rockeries walls.
Types of retaining wall
- Gravity: Gravity walls depend on their mass (stone, concrete or other heavy material) to resist pressure from behind and may have a 'batter' setback to improve stability by leaning back toward the retained soil.
- Cantilevered: Cantilevered retaining walls are made from an internal stem of steel-reinforced, castin-place concrete or mortared masonry (often in the shape of an inverted T).
- Sheet piling: Sheet pile retaining walls are usually used in soft soil and tight spaces. Sheet pile walls are made out of steel, vinyl or wood planks which are driven into the ground.
- Bored pile: Bored pile retaining walls are built by assembling a sequence of bored piles, proceeded by excavating away the excess soil. It may include a series of earth anchors, reinforcing beams, soil improvement operations and shotcrete reinforcement layer.
- Anchored: An anchored retaining wall can be constructed in any of the aforementioned styles but also includes additional strength using cables or other stays anchored in the rock or soil behind it.
- Soil nailing: Soil nailing is a technique in which soil slopes, excavations or retaining walls are reinforced by the insertion of relatively slender elements – normally steel reinforcing bars.
