RETAINING WALLS
WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF RETAINING WALL BLOCK AVAILABLE!
CONCRETE, WEATHERED, COBBLE, MOSAIC AND MORE!
Affordable Landscaping Supplies understands that West Virginia terrain can be a unique challenge. Often times a retaining wall will be the first step in creating a new outdoor living area, make useful areas to your property, protect your home from slips, or provide drainage solutions. Our retaining walls are designed to work for you long term and to look just as beautiful as the rest of your property.
Retaining Walls must be used in just one finite emplacement within a yard and may serve as an emphasis wall or center of attention, or if needed, a complete system of tiered walls could possibly be designed to turn a sloped exterior space into eye catching landscape design that is as functional as it is beautiful. The size and the setup of the wall will mostly be contingent upon the slope and level of the ground and will be built where the soil needs to be stopped from runoff, although design will come into play to establish the finished layout of the wall or walls. Here are 5 benefits to installing a concrete retaining wall:
- providing functional support for keeping soil in place,
- preventing sink holes and eliminating the eye sore of dirt piles and hills,
- helpful in preventing flooding,
- reduces maintenance and prevents erosion,
- prevent damage to property or surrounding structures.
A retaining wall is a protective structure, first and foremost. It is a structure that holds back soil from a building or structure. Retaining walls prevent down slope movement and provide support for vertical or near- vertical grade changes. Concrete retaining walls can serve aesthetic and landscape design functions as well. A retaining wall installation completed by a quality professional will enhance the value of one’s home. An expert retaining wall installation ought to be both functional and aesthetically satisfying.
Concrete retaining walls are dual purpose; they serve a functional production and are a decorative feature. They are originally built to hold back ground that might otherwise move downwards. People might consider it as a dam for solid runoff. They help stabilize a sloped landscape and provide flat surfaces at elevated intervals. Whether for aesthetic appeal or landscape retention, retaining walls can be a great enhancement to any property. They offer a distinctive look to a landscape with a very important purpose. Although much of the country is experiencing a drought, we must be mindful of the disastrous effects erosion can have on uneven land. Next to planting trees and shrubs, retaining walls are the best runoff solution. Retaining walls are perfect for keeping slopes like small hills or mounds beside our houses from land sliding. They’re perfect for garden landscaping and even for buttressing wall portions of our houses. Retaining walls can also be implemented into a patio setting and can be used as a backdrop that holds planters, lighting and keeps an area cool and shaded from sunlight or wind.
Popular brands of retaining wall block available at Affordable Landscaping Supplies:
PAVERS
The wide variety of pavers means you can create patterns in your walkway or driveways. Some pavers have smooth edges, while others have tongue-and-groove design that make them interlocking. When creating a walkway or patio with pavers, you can cut the pavers to fit your pattern using a wet saw with a diamond blade.
Cost
The manufacturing process makes pavers less costly than poured concrete or asphalt. Concrete pavers cost even less than comparable pavers made of sandstone, granite or clay, and are more durable, especially when used in driveways. The cost of repairing pavers is much less than concrete because you typically only remove the damaged pieces and reset new pavers in their place. When you consider many pavers have a life expectancy of more than 30 years, they are an economical choice.
Strength
Concrete pavers are made in a mold that packs the aggregate, cement and sand much tighter than you can ever achieve with poured concrete. This means the pavers are sturdier than poured concrete. Concrete pavers expand and contract with the seasons, but do not crack like slabs of concrete. Joints between the pavers allow for any seasonal or seismic movement. It’s not necessary to add reinforcement material or rebar under pavers to strengthen them.
Low Maintenance
Routine maintenance includes regular sweeping or rinsing with a garden hose. If the sand in the joints rinses out, you simply sweep more sand into the joints. Any weeds that grow between the pavers are easy to remove. If necessary, you can pull up a paver to expose a weed’s roots to destroy it. Heavy rains may occasionally cause the sand bed under the pavers to shift, which causes the patio or walk to be uneven. Leveling the sand underneath the pavers and compacting it prevents the problem from happening again.
Weather Resistance
Concrete pavers are ready to use as a driveway or patio as soon as you set them, unlike concrete, which much cure for several days before you can use it. Pavers have a rough surface that makes them naturally slip resistant. Deicing salts don’t affect the surface of the pavers. You can shovel or plow snow from them. They also won’t crack in a minor earthquake, like poured concrete does.
Popular brands of pavers available at Affordable Landscaping Supplies:
FLAGSTONE
New to Affordable Landscaping supplies is the ever popular Bluestone which is a durable sedimentary flagstone quarried in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.
Flagstone has been used for paving since the early 1900s. It is a organic flat stone, sometimes cut in irregular, regular, rectangular or square shape and usually used for paving slabs or walkways, patios, flooring, fences and roofing. It may be used for memorials, headstones, facades and other construction.
VENEER STONE
Affordable Landscaping Supplies carries Cultured and Natural Stone Veneers. Stone Veneers have become very popular in recent years because people like the natural aesthetic that they can bring to a home and the versatility these stone products provide. Common uses for veneer includes outdoor kitchens, retaining walls, pool features, waterfalls, indoor/outdoor fireplaces, home siding and pilasters. If you are debating on which product would be best suited for your project, please ask the professionals at Affordable Landscaping Supplies to help you make the best decision. Additionally, there are considerable cost, design, and installation differences so its always best to ask the experts first.
*Images above are of Eldorado Stone Cypress Ridge. The color is orchard. Installation by Unique Homes.
Popular brands of veneer stone available at Affordable Landscaping Supplies:
Cultured/Manufactured Stone Veneers
Real/Natural Stone Veneers
Crucial products that defend and protect your outdoor living space
Affordable Landscaping Supplies wants you to be able to enjoy your investment for many years to come and SEK Surebond has the exceptional products you need to add longevity and beauty to your outdoor living space. Take a look below at the products we use and trust – feel free to contact us anytime so one of our specialists can help make sure you have the right tools for your project!
Not sure where to start? Take a look at this SEK – Product Selection Chart to get familiar with the products and their applications.
SnapEdge
Polysweep and Paver Bond
