Retaining Walls

Do you have an unevenly elevated garden in your home? The solution could be installing retaining walls. It is the best way of preventing the runoff of soil so that it does not mess up the lower level. You can either choose sheet pile, anchored, counterfort, gravity, or cantilever walls depending on the gravity of your landscape. You can build your retaining walls from metal, brick, concrete, or stone materials. The most important thing is to choose the one that matches your garden and SoFlo Contracting cab help you in making an educated decision. Here is a brief description of each of these retailing wall designs.

Cantilever Walls

Cantilever walls can support large amounts of earth and hence are ideal for tall slopes. These walls have an irregular thickness and the top is considerably thinner than the bottom. The wall rests on a slab that absorbs heavyweight at the bottom. The construction of a cantilever wall is not a DIY project because the project is a complicated one. Calculation of the dimensions before building these retaining walls calls for professional expertise. The walls are cast with concrete and reinforced with rebars. Contractors may also use buttresses to counter the heavyweights. The advantage of these walls is that they use fewer materials. 

Gravity Walls

Gravity walls aren’t as weight resistant and as solid as the cantilever walls. However, they will not cost you much and are less complex to build. If the elevation difference in the garden is not so steep, gravity walls will work perfectly for you. Gravity walls tend to resemble cantilevers from the top down even though they don’t have a second layer arm. The absence of buttresses decreases efficiency but not to a great extent for smaller walls. However, you may decide to construct a concrete footing for additional stability even though you will want the help of professional excavators.