If your home's property has a bare hill, you may feel that it is missing something. Because of this, you may be considering building a brick retaining wall to add to its aesthetic and offset the visual lines along the slope.
While a retaining wall can add to the beauty of your landscape, having one built by a professional can do so much more. Below are a couple of benefits of having a brick retaining wall installed along the hill on your property's landscape.
1. Helps Prevent Excess Water from Causing Erosion and Possible Mudslides
One of the major benefits of installing a retaining wall along a sloping hill on your property is that it can help prevent the destruction caused by soil erosion and possible mudslides if enough water flows down the hill. Because of the incline of the slope, the water will run down onto the rest of your landscape, washing away grass and possibly the plants that you have planted yourself.
When you have a retaining wall built properly and by a professional, the water is redirected, and the soil is compacted. These features help to greatly minimise erosion and diminish the possibility of mudslides that can cause a great amount of damage.
2. Gives You Additional Space to Plant Flowers, Shrubs and Other Flora
Another benefit that having a retaining wall built on your property provides is that it gives you additional space to plant flowers, shrubs, and other flora that add to your landscape's appeal. When you have an uncontained hill, you are limited to what you can place on the slope because of the erosion it causes.
However, once the wall is in place, the soil is compacted and can be built up to be level with the top of the wall. This gives you more space where you can expand on the design plans you have for your property.
When you add a retaining wall to your home's property, you not only add space where you can expand your landscape design, but you also help to keep soil erosion and possible mudslides from causing destruction. While it may seem as though the installation of such a wall would be easy to do yourself, its design and construction must be completed in a certain way to make it functional, hence requiring a professional. Contact a contractor in your area that installs brick retaining walls to discuss your options for having one built for you.
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