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Terraced Walls Tackle Unruly Hillside

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

Terraced Walls can Tackle and Unruly Hillside – 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 front entrance. Read all about it:

Ashlar Blend Retaining Wall

Terraced Ashlar Blend Retaining Wall

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Turn It Up By Turning Your Retaining Wall In

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Turn Ins

Turn Ins

Have an area in your yard you want to enhance? Make more usable space? Build a planter? What ever the project you are building, there is always a beginning and an end. Both parts are equally important but how you end your wall can really change to the look and feel of your project as well as the functionality of the area. Before you start your project you need to ask your self a few questions. How is this wall going to end? Is it a corner? Is it a step down or a terrace? Or is it my favorite… a turn in to the hillside kind of ending?

Terraced Turn In

Terraced Turn In


While all good choices, the turn in is my personal favorite. It is the no-muss, no-fuss answer to most wall ending projects. It’s an easy solution, and Allan Block has all the answers on their website, www.allanblock.com. Visit their page on Turn-ins to get all the details and turn up the beauty and functionality of your wall with Allan Block!

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Finishing your Allan Block Wall with Style

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Finishing your Allan Block Wall

Finishing your Allan Block Wall

Landscape design options are endless and finding the right one to fit your landscape can be a lengthy process. When designing your retaining or landscape wall, how you top off or finish your wall can change the look and feel of your landscape. Need some ideas on how to put that finishing touch on your Allan Block retaining wall? You can find some great ideas and instructions on finishing options that are sure to fit the design and style of your landscape on the Allan Block website. So check them out, find one that works for you and be the talk of the neighborhood with your beautiful landscape!

Danelle

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Do you want to build your own Segmental Retaining Wall?

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Curved Walls

Curved Walls

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 to the walls and backyard if they had gentle curves instead of simply two straight walls. In the end, they turned out fantastic and transformed our backyard from a space we didn’t spend much time in to a place we don’t want to leave. The walls are parallel and have symmetrical inside and outside curves from one end of the property to the other, about 90 ft (27.5 m) each. At the center of the yard the walls bow away from each other forming a larger “Eyebrow” that is the centerpiece of the landscaping.

  • How do you start planning and estimating?
  • How do you prepare your site for construction?
  • Where do you store the product as you are building?
  • How do you lay out the leveling pad and start the base course?
  • How do I build a wall with a pattern?
  • Do you have to cut the blocks to make the curves?
  • How do you fit the caps in place?

Wow, there is a lot to consider when you are going to build a wall and this is just a short list. In the next few weeks I will take you through a very detailed, easy to read book that Allan Block has on their website called Landscape Walls by Allan Block. I will do so by telling you the story of my wall construction, starting with a good plan, a sound design and finally with a lot of help from my friends and family, to the building.

We will get down to business with my next blog called Planning and Estimating your Segmental Retaining Wall.

Rich

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