Commercial & Residential Landscaping in Langley & Maple Ridge
                     COMMERCIAL & RESIDENTIAL 
LANDSCAPING
in Langley & Maple Ridge
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Retaining walls not only improvise the overall aura of your outdoors but is also the most splendid way 
to level out a slanted yard or maintain two diff erent levels of soil. Irrespective of your objective for 
constructing a retaining wall, you might be wondering about the required depth of a 
Maple Ridge retaining walls. Scroll down to fi nd out more about the depth of a retaining wall.  
A retaining wall must be at least as deep as the amount of soil they wil l be harboring. The most 
satisfactory way of evaluating is to split the height of the wall and then add 4 inches. It is how deep 
you ought to position your wall. It is a fundamental approach to the mandated depth of your retaining 
wall; here, in this article, we have adhered to the information you may need to calculate the depth of 
your retaining wall accurately.  
DEPTH OF RETAINING 
WALL  
If  you are up for install ing a retaining wall in 
your space, you might need some 
clarifi cation or desires about the height of 
your retaining wall. 
3ft is ideal as it holds the soil sturdily behind the 
retaining walls. Yet another method is employed 
mainly by experts to install a Langley retaining walls. 
The technique uti l izes mm instead of inches; 
nevertheless, the concept is the same. For 
i l lustrations, if  you install a 30-inch-tall wall, you 
must place your posts at least 19 inches deep.  
HOW DISTANT SHOULD RETAINING 
WALL POSTS BE? 
Now that you have fully comprehended the required depth for your retaining 
wall posts, you must be wondering how far the posts should be. An ideal 
distance between the retaining wall posts is the same as the depth, i .e., 3ft. 
However, you can increase or decrease this amount by a couple of feet per your 
preferences for aesthetic reasons. Maintaining a distance below 7ft is highly 
advisable to prevent the horizontal planks from fastening. If you are spacing 
your posts 3ft apart yet fi nd out that you sti l l  possess some distance to cover, 
it might be worth augmenting the wall to cover the last 3 ft. Or you can split 
the length of the wall by the number of posts you want to accumulate evenly.  
 RETAINING WALL 
To construct a retaining wall in Maple ridge, you wil l  require 
excavation of a trench for the foundation of the retaining wall 
to be built in. The wall footing and foundation wil l  mandate 
burying in the ground, just l ike the posts. For adequate footing 
and foundation of the wall ,  trenches must be dug deep enough 
to enable three inches of gravel footing and half the foremost 
row of blocks or wood plank.  
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CONTACT
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contact us the required information below. We look forward to hearing from you.
Dani Martinez
Phone: 778-242-5887
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