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Article: Gravity, frost work against your retaining wall

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June 1, 2008
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Dear Tim: Can you tell me how to build a retaining wall? Are retaining wall blocks a good choice? What critical things do I need to know so that I don't have a collapse or other failure in the years to come? I have access to lots of large stones. Can I just stack them to make a retaining wall from stone? - Janine W., Fort St. John, B.C.

Dear Janine: Retaining wall construction is an art that has been around for thousands of years. You can see these structures in just about any archeological photo of ancient building sites. In almost all cases, the long-gone builders used stacked stone to build walls

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