The first step to design a retaining wall with a concrete block system is to assess the site conditions and the purpose of the wall. You need to determine the soil type, the slope angle, the water ...

Vertical reinforcing steel is also very important. This steel can be put in both a poured concrete foundation and a concrete block wall that will have the hollow voids filled with cement grout or ...

A church in Victoria, B.C. is drawing criticism for putting up a concrete-block wall and iron fence to keep drug users and homeless people off its front steps. Central Baptist Church said its goal ...

Q. An elderly friend of mine has some steps to her basement that have no handrail. I told her I'd put one up, but the walls alongside the steps are made of cement blocks. The steps themselves are ...

Gregg and Kenda Ottinger of Shawnee, Kan., threw out the railroad ties that lined their 60-foot-long driveway and replaced them with a concrete-block wall two years ago.