Retaining Wall Installation

A wall holding back saturated soil in a Minnesota spring is fighting hydrostatic pressure it was never designed for, and it leans, bulges, then goes. We build walls the way they're supposed to be built — a compacted aggregate leveling pad below frost-affected soil, clean drainage stone behind the full height of the wall, a perforated drain tile daylighted to a low point, geotextile wrapping the stone so silt can't clog it, and geogrid reinforcement tied back into the retained soil on anything over four feet.

Block walls use Versa-Lok, Anchor, or similar engineered systems; boulder and natural stone walls are hand-set and keyed. Walls over four feet require a permit and engineered drawings in most Central Minnesota cities — we handle that process rather than building under the limit to avoid it.