If you're dealing with a bit of a downhill site, timber retaining walls may well be the key structural components of your backyard. By helping to promote continuity, housing vegetation or even make room in a landscaped landscape, retaining walls can often turn out to be a highly decorative and aesthetic design element of your backyard. While most people think of them as functional and necessary for many backyards, the initial construction of these walls is often left to the professionals. But if you've ever thought about constructing one yourself, you'll find that the entire process is actually fairly straightforward. Here's how you can build the wall that you've always wanted, without ever needing to pick up a hammer.
For starters, it's important to understand exactly why you need the wall in the first place. You may want to protect your lawn from animals encroaching onto your land, for example, or you may simply want to help with water runoff prevention on your stream-side garden. Timber retaining walls serve all these purposes, to varying extents. But before you do anything else, make sure that you have located the wall at the right level, so that the structure will be stable. If it's too low, the weight of all the soil on top of it will likely cause it to buckle; if it's too high, it'll simply not work, resulting in a weak and/or unstable structure.
If you're going to use concrete retaining walls, you'll find that it comes in various sizes, which will depend upon the amount of soil on top of the structure. In selecting the size of the wall, remember that larger structures tend to take more time to build. If you have a large area to cover, then you might want to consider building a concrete retaining wall from the very beginning, in order to get the job done sooner. Plus, these concrete walls are virtually maintenance-free. Just keep them well-maintained and they'll last you for years!
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