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

Faux Stone Block Retaining Wall Here’s a retaining wall made by @blueisle out of concrete blocks that look like stone. Retaining walls help create more usable flat space in a sloped yard, and ...

Here are a few tips to help you succeed when building a stacked stone retaining wall. The first step is to dig down into the soil and remove the topsoil from where the base of the wall will be ...

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.

A nice 30-inch stone placed lengthwise along with wall gives you a nice look, but it is not holding the wall in place the way it would if inserted from front to back in the wall. Snow also reminded me ...

Retaining walls higher than 3 feet should tilt into the hillside. This is commonly referred to as battering. It's not uncommon to see 6 inches of backward tilt for every 4 vertical feet of height.

There are two types of stone walls. One is free-standing that creates a fence or boundary. The other is a stone retaining wall. The method of construction for each is somewhat similar to the other ...

I’m referring to the increasing use of one-metre-cube-sized boulders in large stacked-stone retaining walls. Victoria Times-Colonist Staff Mar 15, 2019 12:06 AM Print ...

A stacked stone wall relies on its own weight and the friction between the stones to hold back the soil. Larger stones typically work best, however.

Here are a few tips to help you succeed when building a stacked stone retaining wall. The first step is to dig down into the soil and remove the topsoil from where the base of the wall will be ...

A&E Ask The Builder: Rock retaining walls pit friction against gravity Sat., April 28, 2018 You can use forgotten technology to lift some of these heavy stones yourself, but it’s very time ...