An essential and often overlooked factor for a sturdy, long-lasting fence is effective retaining wall drainage. Imagine water silently pooling behind your retaining wall, creating immense pressure ...

The subsoil water is then led to a front collector drain behind the toe of the retaining wall and discharged into Fibertex Drainex DN160 drainage pipes, which are also chemically inert.

2. To avoid soil shifting and damaging the wall, retaining walls should rest on cut or undisturbed ground, not landfill, and have a footing roughly two times the width of the wall and as deep as ...

inches lower than the top of the foundation wall. This would allow for 6?inches of foundation to show above the ground and 12 inches of fall from the house toward the base of the retaining wall.

Design flaws in a retaining wall drainage system and heavy rains during construction may have contributed to a “slope failure” that caused the collapse of U.S. 36 in Westminster two yea… ...

The subsoil water is then led to a front collector drain behind the toe of the retaining wall and discharged into Fibertex Drainex DN160 drainage pipes, which are also chemically inert.