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Retaining walls

Built to hold the hill, and drain it

From
$65 a face foot
How long
One to two weeks for most walls

A retaining wall holds back soil, and soil full of water is heavy. That’s why most walls fail: not the stone, but what’s behind it. Every wall we build starts with a footing on undisturbed ground, has drain rock and a perforated pipe behind the first course, and is backfilled in lifts, compacted as it goes.

Taller walls get geogrid laid into the backfill to tie the soil to the wall, and an engineer’s plan. We build in segmental block or in natural limestone from the quarry up the road.

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A curved retaining wall of tan limestone blocks holding a terraced garden on a hillside lot

What's included

  • A footing below the frost line
  • Drain rock and a perforated pipe behind
  • Geogrid in the backfill on taller walls
  • Caps and steps in the same stone
  • Engineered plans for walls over four feet

Typical jobs

  • A terrace for a sloping back yard
  • A wall along a driveway cut
  • Raised beds in limestone
  • Replacing a leaning timber wall

Projects like this

  • A tall dry-laid limestone terrace wall stepping down a hillside garden with stone steps between the terraces

    A limestone terrace wall on a hillside lot

    Retaining wall, Live Oak Springs

    Batch ticketNo. 260618

    Footing
    Crushed limestone, 12 in
    Drain
    4 in perforated pipe
    Stone
    Local limestone, 38 tons
    Size
    86 ft of wall
    Time
    11 days
    Cost
    $24,600 all in

Questions

Why did my old wall lean?

Almost always water: no drain behind it, so the soil got heavy and pushed. Ours are built to drain.

Do I need a permit?

Walls over four feet usually need an engineer's plan and a permit; we handle both.

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