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Retaining Walls

If you have grades on your land you may want to level them out to create terraces, or to cut out portions of embankments to increase the amount of useable space in your yard. If you want beautiful landscaping on your hilly property, you may have to use retaining walls to keep soil, plants, and even your neighbors fences from sliding down an embankment. Whenever properties with slopes and hills are landscaped, retaining walls are commonly used, however a drive around your neighborhood will surely reveal retaining walls that are leaning over or in the process of crumbling to the ground. This is all the proof you need that retaining walls have to be built properly.

If you plan to have a retaining wall higher than 3 feet you will need to build it a certain way with deep poured concrete footings and using a structure recognized to be able to withstand the weight of earth behind it. Big retaining walls require the design and attention of a landscape architect. The landscape architect will help you determine whether the retaining wall is really necessary and how to position it effectively. Due to the cost of planning and building a retaining wall, you want to ensure you've thought of alternatives beforehand.

There are a number of types of retaining walls you might use in your landscaping including gravity walls, counterfort retaining walls, buttressed retaining walls, and cantilever walls. Basically, each has its own engineering design and cost involved.

We redefine your outdoor living space with a landscape that is as unique as your fingerprint. We create unique custom landscapes with a three steppingstone process that streamlines the planning, design and implementing phases with conceptual plans, lifestyle hand colored renderings and master plans. The result is a highly personal landscape that adds value to your home and extends your living spaces and enjoyment thereof.

SLDA Landscape Design Associates serves exclusive clientele in the communities of: Arlington, Belmont, Carlisle, Concord, Dover, Lexington, Northborough, Sherborn, Southboro, Wayland, Wellesley, Westford, Weston and Winchester MA.

Home Renovation

Do your home renovation or home makeover with your outdoor living in mind and enjoy having a home without limits to living and entertainment. From stylish patterned walkways using paving stones to rock waterfalls in water gardens that are lit up at night, the world inside your home will brighten up with a better home landscape.

SLDA is a Sudbury MA based landscape architect and landscape design firm. We primarily serve the area just west of Boston.

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