For homeowners, retaining walls are an excellent way to battle soil erosion while also giving your yard more planting space. In addition, they can serve as a focal point that can be fun to plan around ...

Here's everything you need to know about the tools, materials, and preparation it takes to build a retaining wall out of wood ...

Homes are not always located on flat lots. In fact, landscapes can feature hills and valleys, necessitating some extra steps when installing certain features. Retaining walls are often utilized to ...

In this video I show and explain how I built my fire pit from retaining wall blocks with a galvanised round garden bed for ...

Micah Miller from Easton Outdoors joined HRS with another before and after job with a backyard with a severe slope that ...

It’s tragic to spend the time and money to build a retaining wall only to have it fail. Unstable walls can be dangerous; at the very least they are a discouraging waste of resources. Over the years we ...

AWARE received funding to construct a retaining wall to mitigate future landslide damages, but high construction prices will likely push its cost to more than the awarded grant funding. “The design we ...

The robotics experts at ETH Zurich have developed an autonomous excavator that uses advanced AI to help it complete high-skill tasks without a human operator. Dry stone wall construction typically ...

So I'm in the market for buying a new house. I see one that I like (nice neighborhood and a private backyard). The house borders a ravine with a stream (hence the privacy), but there is a 4m high ...

A dry stone wall is a purposeful pile of rocks, held in place by friction and gravity rather than mortar. It’s one of the oldest building methods known to mankind, used over millennia to construct ...