Retaining walls can add style to your yard and will protect your soil from erosion
As their name suggests, retaining walls are built to hold the soil in place. In most cases, retaining walls are built to counteract natural forces, though their presence can also offer other potential benefits to homeowners.
Here are some of the most important reasons for homeowners to build a retaining wall:
- First, soil erosion can pose a problem to homeowners. For example, it is possible for the soil in a house’s foundation to erode so much that the house built upon the same foundation becomes endangered. Retaining walls can be built to hold the soil in unnatural slopes.
- Second, retaining walls can protect houses in earthquake-prone areas. Earthquakes cause soil to slide from fault-lines, meaning that an earthquake of sufficient magnitude can cause a landslide to engulf downhill properties.
- Of course, retaining walls are also useful if homeowners are interested in opening up slopes for landscaping purposes.
- At the same time, building retaining walls in strategic locations can also help homeowners manage their water runoff because the structures impede its flow.
- Depending on the location of the retaining wall, it can also be used to provide additional outdoor seating.
Homeowners interested in retaining walls should contact Triad Associates for the skill and expertise needed for best results.
