Why You Should Add a Retaining Wall in Your Yard

Retaining walls offer more than visual interest in your yard, including multiple benefits, such as:

• Prevent Property Damage: Retaining walls help to deter water from running off and causing water damage to other structures on your property, including your home, storage sheds or barns. Runoff can erode your home's foundation, lead to wood rot in other structures, and can affect the environment around your property as well.
  
  
• Prevent Erosion & Flooding: Runoff and excessive water leads to erosion over time, which can become a severe problem especially if your property is sloped. Having a retaining wall built near the slope helps to protect your property and to prevent flooding.
  
  
• Provides Support: Retaining walls are also great for creating structural support in landscaping. Retaining walls can add support to your home and its foundation, but can be installed to help maintain the shape of your landscaping and garden spaces.
  
  
• Increase Property Value: Aside from being an aesthetically pleasing way to combat flooding, erosion, and other potential problems, retaining walls can add value to your property. Curb appeal impacts the overall value of your property, which professionally installed retaining walls can help to improve.
  
  
• Prevent Sinkholes: With heavy rainfall, erosion, and potential flooding, sinkholes become a stark reality that develop over time as water gathers and sits to erode the bedrock beneath the soil. Not only are sinkholes dangerous for the structure of your property, but they are a safety hazard. Retaining walls are a useful, preventative measure!
  
  
• Create Space to Utilize: Retaining walls are a useful, practical way to designate space for gardens, patios, and other useable areas. They can be used to slope and shape your yard space as well, creating more privacy and structural support along the way.