Retaining Wall Service

For erosion control, terracing or to contour your landscape with an elevation change, a retaining wall can be both functional and attractive. There are plenty of choices of materials to suit your style: timber; interlocking blocks; stacked stone, brick or block; concrete or a combination.

Retaining walls look like simple stacked stone, block, or timber. But actually, they’re carefully planned systems that wage an ongoing battle with gravity. They control tons of saturated soil that would otherwise slump and slide away from a foundation or damage the surrounding landscape. These barriers also make inviting spots to sit, and can increase usable yard space by terracing sloped properties, something that is increasingly important as flat home sites become ever more scarce in many regions.

Together with sloped landscapes where water excess causes hillside erosion, ideal locations for a retaining wall include spots downhill from soil fault lines and where the downhill side of a foundation is losing supporting soil or its uphill side is under pressure from sliding soil.

Baton Rouge Fence Installers installs retaining walls and other landscape features for properties around the Baton Rouge.