Hold the
bank.
Cut a drive or a pad into a hillside and you have made a bank that wants to come back down. Walls and riprap are what keep it up there.
A retaining wall is a drainage structure that happens to be made of block or stone. Water behind a wall is what pushes it over, so what goes in behind it matters as much as what you can see.
Drainage stone, filter fabric and a working outlet go in as the wall goes up.
What you get
- Block and stone retaining walls
- Riprap for banks, ditch lines and outlets
- Drainage built in behind the wall
- Cut banks stabilised alongside drives and pads
- Capped and graded above
How It Runs
What actually happens on site.
- Cut and baseA level, compacted base course below grade. Everything above depends on it.
- Build and backfillCourse by course, with drainage stone and fabric behind as it rises.
- Drain itA working outlet at the bottom, because water behind a wall is what takes walls down.
- Cap and gradeCapped, and the ground above graded to send water somewhere else.
On the ground
Questions
Asked about this job.
How tall can you build?
It depends on the soil, the load above and what is behind it. Past a certain height a wall needs engineering, and we will tell you when you are at that point rather than building it and hoping.
Free Estimate
Get a price for retaining walls.
Where it is, how long the drive is, how steep it gets and what it is doing now. We come out, walk it, and give you a real number.
Call McKinley direct (828) 540-6856- Free on-site estimates across WNC and the Upstate
- One crew from clearing through to the last load of stone
- Drainage designed in, not sold to you afterwards