Another popular choice for a retaining wall material is poured concrete.
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In this photo increte contractors installed a poured in place decorative concrete wall system called stone crete that creates deep relief stone walls with a variety of available textures and colors.
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Once you pour it you can paint it to match your style or you can stamp designs into the side of the wall.
How to build a concrete wall prep work.
Stone crete is used for sound barrier walls retaining walls subdivision entry walls or wherever a beautiful deep relief stone wall is desired.
Usually plywood forms are set up and secured in place.
Then the concrete is poured between the pieces.
The risk of cracking in poured walls and the difficulty in repairing them makes block and plaster a more forgiving choice.
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The wall we built was a weekend long project and an exhausting one at that.
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Retaining walls can heighten the beauty of any landscape.
If you have an outdoor garden do think about including retaining walls because they have more benefits than they cost.
Poured concrete retaining walls can also be decorative and reproduce the look of stone or masonry.
This simple retaining wall utilizes a beautiful travertine stone cap upgrade.
It took a day to rip out the old collapsing retaining wall to dig farther into the hill to provide room for the backfill gravel and to help unload materials.
A poured wall is much stronger and generally last many more years than a block wall.
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If you want to build a concrete retaining wall you should consider pouring the wall rather than making it out of concrete blocks.
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A poured concrete wall can take nearly any shape and with the right reinforcement they resist a lot of pressure.
After it sets and dries the forms are removed a craftsman adds some finishing touches with acid stain and or sealer and kazam.
Perhaps the finest examples of poured concrete walls can be seen every day along freeways where these structures are constructed on a massive scale.
Many contractors shy away from poured concrete preferring to use cmu block with a plastered face.
This article is about cost friendly retaining wall ideas and their benefits compared to concrete brick and cut wall stones.
When installed properly concrete offers much more room for customization than any other retaining wall material.