Types of Retaining Walls

👉👉Poured concrete
✅Advantages: Strong. Concrete barriers that are well-designed, correctly drained, and backfilled are hard to fail.
❌Disadvantages: The appearance of bare concrete is unappealing. It can be coated with brickwork or specific forms that integrate beautiful designs in the final wall can be employed. Furthermore, if a wall collapses, mending may be impossible, and deportation is expensive. Unless you've done vertical pours before, walls above a few inches high ought to be shaped and poured by a professional.

👉👉Timber walls
✅Advantages: It's just relatively difficult to construct oneself about 4 feet high. You can build a higher wall if an engineer planned it, identified the deadmen, and determined the backfill and drainage.
❌Disadvantages: Not as durable as brickwork. Creating square edges is difficult. Furthermore, the building materials are hefty and difficult to handle individually. Build a 4 feet high by 15 feet in length wall in approximately four days.

👉👉Interlocking Blocks
✅Advantages: Interlocking blocks systems do not require mortar and are simple to put together. Walls may taper, bend, wrap, and curve because units are tiny and modular.
❌Disadvantages: Block systems that employ metal pins to connect each wall block might be difficult to line up precisely..

Here is some information for your reference, if you have any questions, please contact GREEN ARBOR LANDSCAPING (206) 265-2940 for advice.