Santa Cruz Landscaping: Retaining Wall Los Gatos

We have had an amazingly busy January and February. This is probably our busiest yet for our landscaping company. We have been working hard on a couple of different projects this week. Here is a look at the construction of a wonderful retaining wall we are building.

Retaining Wall excavation

We are installing an Allen Block Retaining Wall in the hills above Los Gatos, which is just outside Santa Cruz. We dug out the footer and laid our base course to the retaining wall this week. This can take up about 70% of the total time in the construction of an Allen Block Retaining Wall. However, once the base course is set, the rest of the retaining wall can go up in a day!

So, we laid out our lines and dug in our footer. We all had our fair share of digging in the great Santa Cruz mountain clay! After the excavation, we set our footer of compacted drain rock and laid in our first course of block. Our clients chose the Classic AB block in the tan color, which not only make an attractive retaining wall but very secure as well.

In particular Allen Block is a great choice for retaining walls. It is functional and visually appealing. It has excellent drainage and will last a lifetime.

These retaining walls will be used to retain our clients garden space, as well as give an excellent access to their upper patio. We will also be building in two sets of stairs that will run from the lower garden to the upper patio area, which will make this landscaping project not only very functional, but beautiful as well.


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