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If your retaining wall has started to lean, bulge in the middle, or open up a crack you can slide a finger into, the wall is telling you something. Usually it is not telling you the blocks were bad. Almost every failed retaining wall I get called out to look at failed for the same reason, and it is not the part anyone looks at. Here is what actually goes wrong, how to tell how urgent yours is, and what it costs to put right. The wall is almost never the problem A retaining wa

Half the backyards around here are not really backyards. They are slopes. If your lot drops off behind the house, you already know the feeling of looking at a hill you cannot use and wondering what it would take to turn it into something you actually sit on. That is a hillside deck, and it is a different animal from the flat rectangle a lot of contractors picture when you say "deck." Here is what changes, what it costs, and what to watch out for before you sign anything. What