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Concrete Stairs And Wood Retaining Walls - Landscaping Ideas
I bought my house with a vacant lot beside it back in 1996 and have not had the means to do anything with it because of the slope of the terrain till now.. I had a retaining wall constructed to eventually fill in with dirt and gravel and then eventually concrete on top of that to make it a usable driveway for a future workshop on the back portion of the lot.
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Constructing a Retaining Wall
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See how HANDY Magazine used Versa-Lok standard blocks to build a multi-level retaining wall with steps.
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A gravity wall is a retaining wall that uses the weight of the blocks combined with the friction of the blocks, gravel and soil to give the structure its strength. Gravity walls do not use geogrid reinforcement
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Constructing a small retaining wall from stones in West Vancouver
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An informative video of an actual Allan Block retaining wall under construction. This Commercial application show all the steps involved in building an AB retraining wall.
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Geogrid is a polyester woven fabric used to reinforce the soil behind a retaining wall. This video shows how to build a reinforced Allan Block retaining wall. Allan Block is a mortarless system that requires no concrete, grout, or pins to hold it together
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Civil engineering 3D Animation of a reinforced concrete structure (3 of 3) It shows the chronological order of the construction phase of a earth retaining wall.
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