Retaining Walls in Cleveland, TN
Segmental block walls built on drainage stone and geogrid — the kind that holds a bank back for good instead of leaning out in three years.
Our Retaining Walls Work
A retaining wall is the one piece of landscaping that is actually holding something up, and it is the one where everything that matters is buried before you ever see it. We dig back to solid ground, set a leveling pad of compacted stone, lay drainage stone and filter fabric behind the block so water leaves the wall instead of pushing on it, and run geogrid back into the slope on anything with real height on it. Then the block goes up. We build walls all over Cleveland, Chattanooga, Athens, Dayton and Dunlap — from a two-course seat wall around a patio to tiered walls running the length of a driveway.
Washed stone and filter fabric behind every wall, with an outlet. A wall that traps water behind it is a wall with a clock on it — saturated soil weighs roughly twice what drained soil weighs.
Layers of grid tied back into the slope so the wall and the hill behind it act as one mass. This is the step you cannot add later and the step the cheap bid leaves out.
Dug down to undisturbed ground and compacted before the first course. Every leaning wall we get called to look at moved from the bottom.
Straight runs, curves, corners, steps built into the wall, and tiered walls where one tall wall would be wrong for the slope.
From a back yard seat wall to walls running the length of an apartment site. The block gets set the same way either way.
Retaining Walls Projects
What To Expect
01
Free estimate
We come out to your place in Cleveland, Chattanooga or wherever the job is, walk it, and give you a real number. No charge and no pressure.
02
Dig and grade
We cut back to solid ground and set the grade. On a wall this is also where we find out what the soil is actually doing, which is not always what the surface suggested.
03
Base and drainage
Compacted leveling pad, then washed stone and filter fabric behind the wall with an outlet. This is the part you never see and the part that decides everything.
04
Build
Block set course by course, checked for level as it goes, with geogrid tied back into the slope on anything with height on it.
05
Clean up and walk it
Site cleaned, equipment out, and then we walk the finished job with you before we leave.
Other Services
Our best work
Paver Patios
Paver patios on a compacted base with a locked edge — circles, borders, steps and the fire pit area built in from the start.
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Front of the house
Paver Walkways & Driveways
Walkways and driveway aprons in paver, laid on the same compacted base as a patio and edged so they hold their line.
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Entrances
Stone Columns & Masonry
Stacked stone columns for driveway entrances, mailboxes and gate posts, built on a real footing with a cap on top.
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