| 📐 Retaining Wall Installation |
From $30/sq ft |
Design and construction of new retaining walls for rowhouse areaways, sloped Northwest yards, driveways and terraced gardens, built with frost-depth footings, gravel backfill and drainage for long-term stability. |
| 🔧 Retaining Wall Repair |
From $1,500 |
Repair of leaning, bowing, cracked, or heaved retaining walls, from clogged weep holes and frost damage to tieback anchors and partial rebuilds that stop failure before it becomes collapse. |
| ♻️ Retaining Wall Replacement |
From $35/sq ft |
Full tear-out and replacement of failed or end-of-life walls, including rotting landscape timber and railroad tie walls, with demolition, haul-away, new drainage, and modern engineered materials. |
| 🏗️ Concrete Retaining Walls |
From $35/sq ft |
Poured concrete and reinforced CMU block retaining walls with frost-depth footings, rebar, and weep holes, the strongest option for tall walls, alley driveways, and tight rowhouse lots. |
| 🧱 Block & Segmental Retaining Walls |
From $25/sq ft |
Segmental retaining walls (SRW) in Allan Block, Versa-Lok, and Keystone systems, mortarless engineered block with geogrid reinforcement, ideal for terraced backyards, curves, and garden walls. |
| 🪨 Boulder & Natural Stone Walls |
From $25/sq ft |
Boulder and natural stone retaining walls that blend into wooded ravine lots, machine-placed or hand-set fieldstone construction with proper base preparation and drainage for a natural, durable finish. |
| 🪵 Timber Retaining Walls |
From $20/sq ft |
Pressure-treated timber walls for garden beds and low terraces, a budget-friendly option, with honest guidance on when timber makes sense and when a longer-lasting material is the better call. |
| ⛰️ Slope Stabilization & Erosion Control |
Free estimate |
Hillside stabilization with terraced retaining walls, geogrid reinforcement, and erosion control, protecting homes, driveways, and yards on the steep clay slopes east of the river and the ravine lots of Northwest. |
| 💧 Retaining Wall Drainage |
From $2,500 |
Drainage systems that make walls last: French drains, weep holes, gravel backfill, and waterproofing that relieve hydrostatic pressure, the number one cause of retaining wall failure on clay and high-water-table ground. |
| 🛤️ Railroad Tie Wall Replacement |
From $35/sq ft |
Removal and replacement of aging railroad tie retaining walls from the 1970s and 80s, creosote-treated tie demolition and haul-away, new gravel backfill and drainage, and a rebuild in segmental block, concrete, or natural stone. |
| 🚨 Leaning & Collapsed Wall Repair |
From $2,500 |
Priority response for leaning, bulging, frost-heaved and collapsed retaining walls, stabilization with tieback anchors, drainage correction to relieve hydrostatic pressure, and partial or full rebuilds when a wall is past saving. |