Saturday, January 18, 2014

High Quality Retaining Walls Are Invaluable

By Marissa Velazquez


True experts often recommend using retaining walls in order to retain undesirable slopes. Also these are commonly used while building basements. And if one day you find yourself wondering in the hills or mountains, you will different lands shaped like stairs or in different levels. The ones that are below them are also retain- type and used to retain the soil and keep the earth steady and fertile.

When you research them, you find out that there are many types of retaining walls. Some are used to keep the resistance against undesirable slopes steady and strong. Some others are used to help you nurture your garden and make it look more beautiful. When you look at it, you can be creative with their use in many ways.

There are on the other hand, other engineered ones, designed specifically to resist to higher pressure from the soil. These types can also be used in deep basements, basically for buildings with many floors. These types rely on the heavy material from one hand, such as concrete or heavy stones, and on the other hand they use heavy cables driven inside the soils and nailed down to it with expanding anchors.

Just imagine your garden, with green grass around and at the middle there is a high ground, surrounded by a beautiful wall on top of which there are two trees and many roses and beautiful plans at their feet. You can just sit down on any calm day and relax while drinking your tea and admire the view you have in your garden.

During the 20th century, making gravity models out of larger masses of concrete or stone was used for deeper surfaces in order to allow more resistance. With the development of the construction of these, they are now made with stacked steel wire baskets filled with rocks, which allows more flexibility to the wall and more resistance.

There are also the cantilevered retaining models. These are steel-reinforced concrete. This means that they are made of concrete and reinforced with steel to make their resistance higher to soil pressure. They are made in an inverted T format in order to resist the pressure from up and from below. The strong base below allows isolating the pressure from the ground below allowing the upper wall to concentrate on the pressure coming from the soil next to it.

Walling of this sort does require less material to make than the gravity ones. They can also have a sort of short wing walls in order to help the resistance against the pressure. These wing models can also be made stronger in order to allow the wall to increase their resistance.

If you are still not sure about which type is of best use to you. Try getting a professional opinion in the matter. After all, they are the best people to give you advice on how to choose your retaining walls. They will analyze your situation and give you a solution that is aesthetic and secure at the same time. Even if you shouldn't let the looks overcome the security, professionals can always find a solution for you to satisfy these both needs.




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