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		<title>Terraced Walls Tackle Unruly Hillside</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terraced Walls can Tackle and Unruly Hillside &#8211; Building a new home can be exciting and often challenging. This hillside lot was indeed a challenge for the homeowners building in a new development. They needed to reshape the slope in front of their home and gain more usable land for a driveway leading to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did you know Allan Block has an Inspector Training Certification Program?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Allan Block Wall Inspector Certification Program is designed to give building officials and inspectors the proper training and tools to ensure top quality retaining walls are built.]]></description>
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		<title>Special Retaining Wall Conditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wrapped up helping an engineer with his design and thought to myself “this is a great wall to blog about.”  The wall was nothing spectacular, in fact, it was quite ordinary.  All too often we get excited about those monster walls and forget that most of the walls built are less than 10 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the Water Going?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improper water management is a leading cause of wall failures. To help mitigate this potential problem, proper water management is critical throughout the life of your retaining wall. In February, Danelle touched upon the planning that must be done in order to direct water away from your retaining wall using swales, berms, and other grading. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s going on behind the wall?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.allanblockblog.com/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time I discussed what geogrid reinforcement is and how it benefits your retaining wall, but what is really going on behind that Allan Block façade? For an overview of internal stability with pictures, take a look at the Reinforced Soil Walls Analysis page on the Allan Block website. We recommend 2-course spacing when constructing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Hip to be Square When You Build with Allan Block Corners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.allanblockblog.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While building retaining walls with curves is ideal, it is not always a practical solution the landscape. This is where a corner comes in really handy. Corners can be a source of all kinds of solutions, like making planters, or stairways or by adding more space to an area that needs it. Now you would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planning and Estimating your Segmental Retaining Wall</title>
		<link>http://www.allanblockblog.com/index.php/planning-and-estimating-your-segmental-retaining-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allanblockblog.com/index.php/planning-and-estimating-your-segmental-retaining-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our backyard wall was going to be a big project for a small backyard. We needed to have a staging plan for all the material, but before that we needed to estimate the project and figure our budget. The first step in building a retaining wall is to make a plan. A good plan will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want to build your own Segmental Retaining Wall?</title>
		<link>http://www.allanblockblog.com/index.php/do-you-want-to-build-your-own-segmental-retaining-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.allanblockblog.com/index.php/do-you-want-to-build-your-own-segmental-retaining-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted a nice straight wall, no problems, just stake a working line in the ground and start building. But my wife wanted nice flowing curves. Look who won that discussion! Here are the two Allan Block Europa curved walls we built in our backyard. WE decided that it would add a lot of character [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mortarless Construction?</title>
		<link>http://www.allanblockblog.com/index.php/why-mortarless-construction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AB Retaining Walls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would anyone want to build a 4-foot (3.05 m) gravity wall or even a 30-foot (9.1 m) retaining wall without mortar? A better question is: Why not? What is Mortarless Construction? Mortarless construction is a method of building structures without the limits of mortar. Simply stacking concrete block or stones has proven to be [...]]]></description>
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