If your landscape area is kept wide open, or you have a lawn, or a garden space that has no boundary, you can give them a stunning quick makeover with block retaining walls in an attractive way. Retaining walls are not only a great way to stop water drainage, or soil erosion, they also add up beauty to the open area making it usable as well. It is also a great solution for adding a planting bed, or hard-to-mow slope, or to simply level an ideal courtyard. Let’s proceed further on how to build them.

2. If your landscape area is kept wide open, or you have a lawn, or a garden
space that has no boundary, you can give them a stunning quick makeover
with block retaining walls in an attractive way. Retaining walls are not only
a great way to stop water drainage, or soil erosion, they also add up beauty to
the open area making it usable as well.
It is also a great solution for adding a planting bed, or hard-to-mow slope, or
to simply level an ideal courtyard. Let’s proceed further on how to build them.

3. Material Requirements and Process:
Prepare yourself for some heavy lifting and getting yourself dirty before digging into the
project.
Materials Required:
1.Rope or Hose
2. Work Gloves
3. Wooden Stakes
4. Mattock and Shovel
5. Marking paint
6. Line Level
7. Hammer
8. Soil or Hand Tamper
9. Rock Dust or Gravel
10. Toppers and Stackable Concrete Blocks/Stones having Locking Flange

4. The Stackable stones or blocks are made of concrete that makes them durable and the locking
flange makes it easier to install. They can be used for building a wall upto 28 inches high. First
it is wise to mark your layout. Avoid any downspouts pointed towards the wall, and if it’s
against the house don’t pile much above the siding and try to keep soil bed much below the
siding.
• First, using a hose or a hope outline the shape in order to mark a freeform layout. Then using
a shovel mark the outline. Now for straight lines mark the entire ground area with strings,
stakes, and marking paint.
• After this tie strings to the wooden stakes, make curved corners that are equidistant to the
edges to create a compass and then mark the curves with spraying marking paint.

5. • Next you need to know how many blocks
you will need per row to build the wall. In
that case divide the total length of the wall
by the length of the block. And to know how
many rows you will need, divide the ideal
height of the wall by the block’s height-
account for the first row to be half buried.
• Since your layout is already is marked you
can now start digging the trench. To bury
the first row halfway, dig trench about 4–6
inches deep and dig it to 12 inches wide or
twice the width of the block. If you find
slope in the trench then you will have up
and down in order to keep the blocks level.

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