Excavation For Retaining Walls
Excavation is the process of digging soil. It can be by hand, or with an excavator. In BC you must call Bc1Call 3 days prior to digging.
Excavation is the process of digging soil. It can be by hand, or with an excavator. In BC you must call Bc1Call 3 days prior to digging.
Allan Block is a name for a collection of 3 styles of retaining wall blocks.
Allan Block retaining walls can be built using a single sized block, or a combination up to 4 different sizes.
Cutting Allan Blocks and their caps is always required. At a minimum you will need to cut blocks and caps to length, and frequently you need to customize blocks or caps to make them fit tightly, especially when building staircases.
The majority of your retaining wall design will come from your ideas, and your contractor’s vision.
The foundation of your Allan Block retaining wall is as you can imagine, critical.
Add Ons to me are fun extra stuff we get to install to bring your retaining wall project to life.
You must trust your contractor, and your contractor must trust you. Both parties have important roles to play in the successful completion of any project.
Retaining walls are shockingly much more complicated than I ever realized before learning how to build them. The Allan Block Engineering manual for instance is 140 pages long, most of it contains mathematical formulas I don’t have the time to...
What Is Retaining Wall Drainage?
Retaining wall drainage is a system, or multiple systems, designed to remove water away from behind a retaining wall.