A retaining wall that will take a little longer to crack and tip over than the brick by itself, but not much longer. In fact, water — not dirt — is what cracks and pushes over retaining walls.

I prefer the use of helical wall anchors. The giant screws bore into the soil behind the retaining wall. When connected to the galvanized plates on the exposed side of the retaining wall, ...

Sometimes it's possible to use soil anchors to fortify retaining walls. The anchors tie heavy plates on the open side of a wall to gigantic screws threaded into the soil on the other side of the wall.

Phi Group is the largest retaining solution specialist in the UK, manufacturing, supplying and building retaining structures including timber crib and concrete crib retaining walls, soil nailing, soil ...

Q: It’s time to landscape my backyard, which is currently dirt. I have a 2-foot-high bluff where I’d like to put a retaining wall, but I’m uncomfortable with masonry work. I’ve seen ...

2. To avoid soil shifting and damaging the wall, retaining walls should rest on cut or undisturbed ground, not landfill, and have a footing roughly two times the width of the wall and as deep as ...

On one of the real estate TV programs about flipping houses, misinformed fixer-uppers discover a tilting retaining wall. They erroneously explain that a high bank of dirt is pushing it over and dis… ...