Posts tagged "retaining wall"

Last summer, we started the project to replace an old railroad tie retaining wall in the back yard by the pool with a new block wall.  By the middle of the summer, we had installed the straight portion of the wall and had a new sidewalk and concrete steps poured next to one end, but…

Progress in the Backyard

In the last couple of months, we’ve made a lot of changes in our backyard.  Thought I’d post some pictures of the updates … Before: After: We started by installing a new block retaining wall out by the pool in place of the old railroad tie wall.  The new wall’s almost done … we just…

Backyard Updates

The retaining wall we started on a few weeks ago is now nearly done!  The blocks are pretty much in place; we just need to backfill with another few loads of gravel, finish gluing the capstones in place, and do some grading both in front of and behind the retaining wall.  Here’s a picture of…

Over the last week or so, we’ve been really busy working on the new retaining wall in our back yard and it’s not done yet, but we think we’ve made some really good progress. We worked every night last week on digging into the hillside and leveling the bottom of the trench for the retaining…

Yesterday, we started the project to install a new retaining wall in the back yard by tearing out the old railroad tie wall, removing some bushes, and starting to re-grade the area around the retaining wall. I managed to miss getting a good picture yesterday of the wall before we started tearing it down, but…