Skipping this step when building a retaining wall could lead to costly collapse and repairs. Here's how to keep your ...

Most of the work of building a retaining wall is in choosing the right stones.

Answer: The first step in wall building is to measure how long and how tall the wall will be. If you keep the walls to a maximum of 3 feet tall, you will be able to keep the stones to about the ...

Many years ago, when I was young and foolish, I decided to build an 80-foot long terrace for fruit trees, and to edge it with a nice fieldstone retaining wall, ...

I want to build a stackable rock retaining wall that will be about 3 feet tall and hold back that amount of dirt.

The stone wall planter shown here is functional, beautiful and relatively easy to build. It's designed to hide an exposed concrete foundation, and provide a place to grow plants and shrubs.

Humans have been building retaining walls for thousands of years to create flat, or gently sloping, terraces on hillsides. A lot of my readers have them on their own property — or need to build ...

Building a low retaining wall can help define a yard or garden and add interest. But there are ways to do it right and safely ...

ASK THE BUILDER | A much-thicker wall and pea-gravel fill between the soil and the wall will prevent failure.

When building any wall, free standing or retaining, it is important to have each course of stone level. And a gentle slope or pitch to the outside of the wall is needed, too.

There are thousands of retaining walls in the greater Cincinnati area built using this dense, strong stone. My friend’s wall started to slowly succumb to gravity over the decades.