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Learn why commercial areas have different types of retaining walls installed and what is their purpose.
Planning to Install Retaining Walls on Your Commercial Property?
When you walk into parks or some commercial areas, you will often see retaining walls creating a separation between two areas. In simple words, it is holding back the soil. Though this may seem like a very meek impression of retaining walls, before you start installing one, make sure you have the proper knowledge about them.
Retaining walls can be of many types. Suppose you are building a beautiful garden in your backyard with a majestic waterfall, and you want to create a barrier between your garden and the forest behind you, you build a retaining wall. However, its purpose is fully served in commercial areas.
Adding a retaining wall to your commercial property will not only add to its beauty but will immensely increase the value of the property. You will be attracting more business this way and making more profit. The benefits and purposes of a retaining wall extend way beyond the ones mentioned, so let’s go explore some.
Importance, Purpose, and Benefits of Adding a Retaining Wall
The architecture of a retaining wall may look simple, but structurally, it is very precise and complicated. While cruising through your options always keep an eye for materials that support an economical retaining wall. This will even fit well on a tight budget.
If you want your property to look like those aesthetic destinations that you watch on TV or keep scrolling past in your newsfeed then installing a retaining wall is the right way to go. Along with that, put some landscape lighting, courtesy paintings, and a pair of stairs and watch how people cannot take their eyes off your property.
Apart from that, retaining walls are a great addition to your landscape because they bring many new features into play.
First Things First, it’s Easy Maintenance
If your commercial space is full of slopes and bumpy areas, it is going to be extremely difficult to plant, mow or prune. This will also increase your maintenance cost to a level that may be out of your budget and can add to huge costs in the future.
Therefore, having a retaining wall will allow you to create a flat surface, and you will be able to construct other areas and facilities such as parking lots, play areas, or gardens and flat land is easier to mow plant, and prune than a slope. So you get two-in-one benefits.
Makes Your Area Available to the Handicapped
Using a retaining wall you can renovate your slopes into ramps that would allow handicapped people to easily move. Not only that, if your land is in a mountain area, and it is very hard to travel through the various slopes, with the help of retaining walls, you can easily split the mountain slope into two and add some stairs. This will make it easier to access the area and will also add great value to your woodland.
Improved Sewage Systems
The slopes in your property may be bringing in excess water from rainfall or in general if you are living near a water body. To avoid this problem you can build a retaining wall that holds backwater. This is also known as a seawall.
However, to make the wall many rules and regulations need to be maintained, besides state permission may be required. It is better to be handled by legal experts.
Different Types of Commercial Retaining Walls
As you are well aware by now, retaining walls are built to serve different purposes, as long as you are building the right one on your property.
Many materials can be used to build a gorgeous-looking wall. Before you make a choice remember to cross-check if the material you will be using will fulfill the purpose of building your wall.
The Wall of Natural Stones
This is the most popular choice of people because of its easy installation. You don’t have to use any extra adhesives or locking systems to build a sturdy wall, all you need are pieces of stones that fit well together. Yes, it’s that simple!
It will add a natural, pleasant, and calming look to your landscape, and you can adjust this with any type of exterior design.
Allan Blocks
Do you want to hold back soil? In other words, if a gravity retaining wall is what you are looking for, Allan blocks are the perfect material for you (though this can be used for other purposes too). Allan Blocks are usually stacked on top of each other and locking systems are used to create a setback.
This setback is basically what’s holding the soil. It is perfect for creating a flat surface and is strong structural support to hold back what’s behind that wall.
Concrete Lego Blocks
Do you want a clean precise finishing on your wall? Then concrete Lego Blocks is your best option. The installation process itself is so fast that people don’t think twice before ordering this material. Not only that, you do not need any extra cavalries on this wall.
The result will be a robust, long-lasting, smooth-looking wall.
It’s Time to Build the Proper Retaining Wall for Your Property
Now that you have a basic knowledge about installing commercial retaining walls and how they can improve your property, it is time for you to go on this little journey to find the right materials for your wall. Don’t forget to check in with the legal obligations that will be required to meet before you can install this wall.
Retaining walls will make your property stand out. So if you are set and ready, let’s get building!
(link of picture: Wall Retaining Hardware Support – Free photo on Pixabay)
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