Using a Retaining Wall As a Garden Feature

by Thomas Fryd One way to add interest to your garden is by constructing a retaining wall. Behind this wall, you can plant a lawn or flower bed. Although building a retaining wall requires some planning and effort, they are actually ... it is retaining. This will help give you wall strength. You can slope it as much as 5 or 6 inches back for every [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 18:46:23

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Using a Retaining Wall As a Garden Feature

by Thomas Fryd One way to add interest to your garden is by constructing a retaining wall. Behind this wall, you can plant a lawn or flower bed. Although building a retaining wall requires some planning and effort, they are actually ... it is retaining. This will help give you wall strength. You can slope it as much as 5 or 6 inches back for every [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 17:08:55

Using a Retaining Wall As a Garden Feature

by Thomas Fryd One way to add interest to your garden is by constructing a retaining wall. Behind this wall, you can plant a lawn or flower bed. Although building a retaining wall requires some planning and effort, they are actually ... it is retaining. This will help give you wall strength. You can slope it as much as 5 or 6 inches back for every [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 19:59:08

Using a Retaining Wall As a Garden Feature

by Thomas Fryd One way to add interest to your garden is by constructing a retaining wall. Behind this wall, you can plant a lawn or flower bed. Although building a retaining wall requires some planning and effort, they are actually ... it is retaining. This will help give you wall strength. You can slope it as much as 5 or 6 inches back for every [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 18:45:34

Creative Landscaping With Retaining Walls

by STEVE BOULDEN Retaining walls can be used to create raised garden beds, prevent erosion, and stabilize steep-sloped banks. They can be crafted from large river rocks, field stone, railroad ties, heavy timbers, concrete ... , or driveway; retaining walls can be used as edging or be designed as freestanding. With so many possible [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 16:46:22

Millenia Retaining Walls Voted Best Green Exterior Product

(Real Estate News and Information) Millenia Wall Solutions developer of the Millenia174 Retaining Wall System httpwwwmilleniawallscomTechnologyaspx announced that its SC1008482SC508482 Retaining Wall Units won Best Exterior ProductDesign in the first annual Readers039 Choice Awards conducted by Environmental Design Construction EDC [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 08:26:39

Too many projects

I have a LOT of stuff I want to do. I simply don’t have the time, space, and money to do everything I’d like to do ... : A) Flagstone (or brick?) walkway around the side of the house and across the back patio area B) Retaining wall ... retaining wall to match the rest of our fencing D) Design a custom carputer for the Supra to fit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 19:05:05

My Non-Consumer Backyard Project — An Update

Jump to Comments                                       My summer has been dominated by a backyard project ... .  It was decided that we would put in a stone retaining wall. This part scared me as front yard retaining walls ... . And like all household projects, it started out small.  A brick patio. All I wanted was a nice [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 02:49:36

Landslides and all

As many landslide incidents happened in the past few days, many things have been said and commented ... and the property owners to carry out their projects in a more responsible manner. Retaining walls should be built; but not just any retaining wall, it should be strong and able to withstanding whatever [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 01:36:00

Dougherty Landscape: Experts in Landscape Management

More Information Whether your property is in need of installation or replacement of landscape products ranging from a retaining wall, ... service Landscape design/architecture Landscape construction/installation Horticultural evaluation ... Cleanups Retaining Walls Sodding & Seeding Gutter Cleaning Driveway Sealcoating Ponds and Water [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 18:05:41

Thanks for paying attention

Now this just annoys the crap outta me. Y’all know I’m the first one to point fingers at my colleagues when they do stupid things or when ... waste called “fly ash” that was being retained by a retaining wall until it broke, no longer retaining the retainee. Several houses were wiped out and lotsa folks now have this crap all over [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 19:21:01

Sungai Buloh folk told to vacate their homes

SUNGAI BULOH: Residents of 12 double-storey terrace houses in Sungai Buloh Country Resort have been ordered to vacate their homes today to allow ... the cracked retaining wall. Asked why the retaining wall was only built half way and not along ... building a two-layer, two-metre high gabion wall filled with rocks along the back lane to prevent soil [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 02:28:27

Problem Slopes? Try Terraces!

Slopes can be made into a lovely garden spot. Instead of a weedy eyesore, the slope could be a lovely flower garden ... bricks, concrete blocks, modular retaining wall blocks or stone. The various masonry options ... retaining walls for terraces. Railroad ties have rather fallen out of favor these days [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 13:13:41

My Non-Consumer Backyard Project Is Finally Done!!

Jump to Comments   I bought my house in 1996, partly because of the nice big backyard. I had all kinds of schemes for how I would tart it up ... d have to build a retaining wall. This bummed me out majorly, as Portland is insane for retaining walls ... . Except for a bag of accidently moistened concrete, there was next-to-no waste. The patio and rock [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 07:56:46

Landscaping Materials

Landscaping materials are readily available in the spring and summer months ... in with your flowers. Retaining walls and borders If you are installing a retaining wall or new border for flowerbeds or gardens, then you will need brick, stone, or rock. This will depend [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 05:00:07

Tyson Landscaping: The Hardscape Experts

With Tyson Landscaping, Inc. they provide all of your hardscaping design and installation services ... Pavement Institute (ICPI) Certified Retaining Wall Construction Contractor Decks, Sunrooms &amp ... , walkways, and retaining walls are the core of their business services, but do much [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 02:37:05

Tyson Landscaping: The hardscaping experts

With Tyson Landscaping, Inc. they provide all of your hardscaping design and installation services ... Institute (ICPI) Certified Retaining Wall Construction Contractor Decks, Sunrooms & Porches ... , walkways, and retaining walls are the core of their business services, but do much more. Hardscaping [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 17:37:24

Experienced Landscaping Staff Ready to Take on Challenging Projects

Matt Wadsworth Landscaping provides their clients with a skillfully orchestrated selection, ... Retaining Walls - Natural Stone Pavers & Masonry Contractor Snow Plowing/Removal Residential &amp ... Retaining Walls - Mortarless/Dry Stacked Block Flagstone Sidewalks, Patios & Walkways Interlocking [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 12:48:57

Rooftecture S / Shuhei Endo

Architects: Shuhei EndoLocation: Shioya Tarumi-ku Kobe, Hyogo-Pref ... has an elongated triangular form, 20m long east-west and 1.5m to 4.0m deep. A retaining wall of wedge ... retaining wall in the back and the improved ground - that is, an extension of environmental attributes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 03:29:00

City bought SI site to prevent development

A city carpenter not involved with the project was overheard one recent afternoon marveling at the retaining wall under construction along Hendricks ... funds set aside following the Henry Hudson wall collapse of 2005 to repair public retaining walls [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 01:29:00

This Abandoned Mound of Crap Has Been Brought to You by JMS Friendly Island Construction

Eric gives you peaches and roses; I offer you more photos of the archaeological dig that’s currently devaluing the real estate in my neighborhood. Because a section of our old retaining wall was perilously close to falling over ... if they’d simply reassure me that I’ll actually have a shiny new retaining wall by Hallow’s Fucking Eve [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 04:28:37

Aerial Footage of Recent TVA Retaining Wall Failure

A retaining wall holding 80 acres of flyash failed at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston coal-fired power plant early monday morning. 2.6 million cubic yards of fly ash were released [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 14:32:00

Latest Project - Form Work

I learnt so much about building and renovating houses in the last couple of months and vocabulary is still growing ... with a wall, more precise a retaining wall, we need to put a footing, a foundation down. Simple speaking this means digging a hole and pouring concrete in. But to make sure that the concrete stays where [more...]

Date: 2009-01-23 02:36:00

Piedmonters Share The Floor

Well we expected civility in the hills, and that’s what happened when Montclarions showed up at Piedmont City Hall this week ... the retaining walls needed to shore up unstable park land.  It turns out that BART construction debris ... for a pedestrian overpass on Moraga Ave, as well as large retaining walls (blue lines, below). Blair [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 07:00:10

Lucky Me

Some times my good fortune even surprises me.We still own our motorhome and it is sitting in the driveway until the time I am willing to sell it ... at a reasonable price but "I found one", period!It was sitting on the concrete retaining wall ... to replace the retaining nuts. Someone must have found it after it had blown off and placed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 18:32:00

Slip slidin' away.....

Buying a home on a hill always means you have to worry about things like landslides, runoff, fires etc ... homebuilder KB Homes because a retaining wall in the backyards is beginning to crumble and has been deemed ... , looks at an eroding retaining wall. KB Homes evacuated four families as a precaution because rain [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 23:34:00

Busy Boys

While I was gone to England, Adam and Peter got busy cutting down the weeping cherry tree that graced our patio and shaded it ... and, worse, pushing out the retaining wall. So, away it went! A new chain saw was needed for the deed ... to set anything on.In this shot you can see the edge - that's the curved retaining wall. We'll put [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:32:00

Ramblings of a Field Biologist

Monday, May 26th In the last week of May, the Northern Rough-winged Swallows (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) finally began nesting ... me fast. In the retaining wall holding up the roadside overlook, a pair of rough-wings ... . To access the retaining wall I would have to jump a fence, clamber down, and walk across a scree slope [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 04:12:32

Michael Jursic: Entitleitis and looking out for the other fellow

Well, friends, Christmas time is here and I've just come from my boys' Winter Concert. Though I loved the music, the behaviour was appalling ... . While I was hugging the retaining wall on my right, these ladies continued to bear down on me, without stopping or ceding the right of way. While I was stopped, cowering by somebody's retaining wall [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 17:42:00

Sydney Landscapers Are Doing Great Work.

With a strong desire to provide good value, and the requirement of preserving a superior quality you can be sure that the intention of the ... format concrete pavers, block retaining walls and wall cladding. If you take a look at suppliers [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 06:11:27

Terrace Grading for that Perfect Garden Slope

by Kent Higgins Terraces are wonderful additions to any house, functioning as outdoor style living rooms or patios in the summer, ... of this. After the hole is dug, the walls will need reinforcing with a retaining wall, to prevent [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 18:51:44

Of wood and concrete...

Ok, not a very original title to this blog entry, but "Of wood and concrete" ... putting in a retaining wall next to the shed. You might think that the order we do things is kind ... waaay ahead (the good ones, anyway), and as the date is fixed, the retaining wall needed to be put [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 11:34:43

The Many Faces of a Terrace Floor

by Kent Higgins Terraces are wonderful additions to any house, functioning as outdoor style living rooms or patios in the summer, ... of this. After the hole is dug, the walls will need reinforcing with a retaining wall, to prevent [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 18:46:01

Coal Ash Spill Revives Issue of Its Hazards

Fifteen homes like this one in Harriman, Tenn., were flooded with fly ash sludge on Monday after a storage pond wall broke. Photo by J ... breached a retaining wall early Monday morning, said, "They're giving their apologies, which don't mean [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 13:50:07

Worrell Recognized as an IDEA® Design Award Finalist for Landscape Wall Made from 100% Recycled Material

Worrell is an international product design, development and strategy firm resolute in creating rewarding financial outcomes through building brands from the product out since 1976. Minneapolis, MN, November 12, 2008 — Collaborative Design of New Wall Units Creates the Most Significant Advance in Retaining Wall Construction Materials and Methods [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 11:35:29

Every Retaining Wall Should Have Lights And Sound

These odd looking blocks are actually a light and a speaker that are meant to be built into a retaining wall. They match the other stones sold by the manufacturer so that your outdoor lights [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 22:18:30

Greenhouse Almost Finished!

My wife and I literally worked all weekend to get our new greenhouse built.It was much more involved than I thought it would be ... was the year before that. This spot was too narrow so my wife had a great idea to build a retaining wall ... tunnel or maybe even a hoop house.Instead of explaining the whole construction process here, why don't [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 11:14:00

Cabernet Stone Terracing

cabernet stone It seems like whenever clients call us about terracing a slope on their property, ... retaining wall, so we didn’t want to add another giant wall to further loom over people. We wanted ... itself well to dry stone walls. For instance, a two foot high wall needs to be a foot thick [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 06:29:34

Ron Baron in talks with town over alleged dune damage

According to Hamptons.com, stock investor Ron Baron was accused in November of destroying part of the Atlantic Double Dune system that runs along a ... from the construction of a retaining wall on Baron’s property. Baron’s legal representatives are said ... some dimunition of the wall and replanting of vegetation” but there is no agreement yet on just how [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 19:19:51

Fill

In addition to showing off their Muppetology, I notice that my new blogging colleagues like to post purty pictures of their bright, ... and generally snotty weather in recent memory.  To make matters more depressing, my family and I have a concrete retaining wall that’s in the process of being replaced, which means half our yard has been turned [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 09:06:17

Star's Accumulation of Atrocities

All touch is bad touchThe Musicians' Union has recently added a guideline stating that teachers should have no physical contact whatsoever with their ... the Silver Surfer (pictured left) was arrested on Halloween night after crashing his car into a retaining wall. When police arrived they administered a sobriety test and asertained that Stone was [more...]

Date: 2008-11-09 21:10:00

Advantages Of Raised Garden Beds

Gardens at ground level may seem to be the natural order of things ... ) we are looking at a retaining wall of eight to twelve inches. For such a wall you can use wooden planks laid horizontally; or brick; or concrete block. If the objective is to raise the top of the bed [more...]

Date: 2008-12-16 05:25:47

Cincinnati seeking $16.5M for transportation improvements

Cincinnati City Council is considering an ordinance allowing them to accept up to $16 ... for street improvements, bridge replacement, landslide correction, retaining wall improvement, rapid ... , Hillside Avenue at Tyler AvenueRetaining wall improvement, Cummins StreetStreet rehabilitation, McMillan [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 10:08:00

After The Deluge

:Christian Grantham has more ....-----------------------------What happens when 300 million gallons of toxic coal sludge roars through your town? About what you’d expect:Holly Schean, a waitress whose home, which she shared with her parents, was swept off its foundation when millions of cubic yards of ash breached a retaining wall early [more...]

Date: 2008-12-26 18:04:00

Look Before You Leap

The Olympics have been pretty inspiring, haven’t they? All that jumping, running, swinging and vaulting… especially the vaulting ... yet, some of the concrete retaining wall had already been built. One fine day (this was during ... . No, this is where you sorta leap over an obstacle, usually a wall or something, while using one or both arms [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 11:00:56

Terrace Gardening

If there’s a slope or incline on your property, you can turn it into a lovely garden oasis ... , concrete blocks, modular retaining wall blocks or stone for steeper slopes. The different masonry ... for the walls. In the past, railroad ties were considered a good source of material for making retaining [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 09:09:23

more art in the garden

Here are some more little ideas I picked up on the garden tour this past summer: Dried allium seeds heads in an oriental vase ... A retaining wall made of broken concrete pavers.  I have some of these lying around I might use someday ... much to make a plain area beside the house look nice, does [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 17:54:38

Incredible disappearing waterway could cost Laguna millions

Sniff, sniff, snifffff…The Watchdog smells a lawsuit brewing… ... would otherwise be required; he had to construct a heavy concrete and steel wall to support the structure; he had to erect costly retaining walls and a lengthy and expensive ”bridge” driveway [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 14:00:26

How to build a raised garden plot: the solution for a rocky sloping lawn

Frustrated with having to grow tomatoes behind your garage or peppers in pots on the deck because you rocky sloping lot, though attractive, ... .  The retaining walls can be built of cast stone, bricks, adobe, or timbers.  Treated landscape timbers ... wall dimensions.  Place a stake in the uphill end of the plot, measure down 8 feet and place [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 19:34:55

Wired-o-Nomics: Wall Street Bonuses and Abortions

Ever since Congress threw $700 billion at financial institutions to help prop up the economy there have been a handful of reports about idiotic ... involved is relatively insignificant. More serious is the question of whether Wall Street Masters ... . Retaining top talent always requires what the market will bear, not what a politician thinks is fair [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 16:24:14

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