This year I have completed another retaining wall for a repeat customer using Imperial Block-Double Faced Rustic-Earth Tone.

The wall was designed to compliment their new addition and give room for flower and shrub plantings.

This is the finished product.  A low wall designed to add eye appeal to the lower portion of the addition.

This is the area to be developed.

 I construct my walls with footers to prevent heaving when the ground I am building on is sloping or uneven.  

The block is secured on the rebar to prevent drift and block adhesive is used at critical points to hold integrity.  The adhesive is shown on the corner block above.  This is more time consuming but I find it is much more stable over time.   Black pins hold the layers together as the wall is built up.

Each layer is painstakingly  placed.

 After the foundation is complete,  wall block is then added.

After the wall  block  is done, the area is back-filled and capstones are cut and glued into place.

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This bed has a small retaining wall that has become loose.  The owner wanted it replaced with one using larger blocks of a different color.

The first thing to do is remove the old blocks and scrape the area clean where the base is to be.  Next, several inches of stone screenings are put down and tamped solid.  The new blocks are 12" (tan castlewall) retaining blocks.  These are placed on loose screenings and pounded level using a rubber mallet.  Work begins at the lowest part of the foundation and is built upward.   

If the first row is set correctly, then other rows are easily added.  The customer was so impressed with how nice it turned out that he wanted the work extended to the other end of the bed, and, capstones added over the whole structure. 

Blocks will be added from the pre-existing work over to the right side of the bed but not on the backside.  After extending the wall over, capstones will be cut on a wet saw and glued into place.

When the wall was finished, I back-filled any area that needed topsoil to cover the stone screenings.

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Around this same house I built small retaining walls to hold in mulch and accent the border.

 Above shows a very short stretch that could use a little something.

The customer really liked this and decided to make it just a few blocks longer.

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Another job required a small wall built so that the driveway could be extended up against it.  I built the wall with rebar supports to hold back the weight of the asphalt.

The ground is excavated for the foundation and holes made for the rebar supports.   After the supports comes the sub-base.

The blocks are set with the rebar going through their center.  There is no chance they will move due to force.

The blocks are carefully placed so that they are level and overlap. Small plastic pins are used to prevent sliding between layers.

The wall is finished.  The driveway was later expanded over to it.  The owner added his own touch by putting a fence on the lower side of the wall.