Revetment walls and retaining walls are features worth integrating, especially if your landscape features sharp gradient changes. A thoughtfully designed revetment or retaining wall can be an attractive focal point for your backyard in addition to providing essential structural support to large masses of soil. To help transform your landscape into a functional and striking masterpiece, we at Mickey’s Lawnscapes would like to share today the benefits of incorporating a revetment or retaining wall.
Revetments Provide Flood Control & Help Prevent Soil Erosion
Whether it is due to wind or water, erosion is ever prevalent in any landscape. Especially if your landscape does not feature a lot of trees and shrubs to hold the soil in place, this makes retaining walls all the more important. Revetment walls also help reduce the surface runoff by reducing sharper gradients in addition to providing necessary support to the soil. This reduces the speed at which water travels over the surface and thereby reduces erosion. While also providing effective flood control in the form of water drainage aimed at preventing flooding, retaining walls do all this. For proper drainage and water control, channels and drainage pipes can be integrated into the construction to provide further measures. It allows water to soak into the soil rather than run off the surface as retaining walls also reduce the gradient through terracing.
Do Retaining Walls Beautify a Property?
Depending on their height and the material used, revetment and retaining walls can prove to be bold and attractive structures. Alongside a natural landscape can work wonders for a landscape, the contrast of a concrete or stone structure. If designed at the right height making it even more functional, a retaining wall can also double as a seating wall. For a beautiful end result with the wide variety of materials available your retaining wall can flow naturally with other features in your yard.
Support & Stability
In order to keep soil in place, a retaining wall serves. To prevent the soil from sliding forward in a landslide, this mostly applies to landscapes featuring small hills where these walls act as a necessary barrier. Ensuring your wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of your house and the features in your yard calls for revetment walls as a necessary safety feature for your landscape. There are a range of options to pick from depending on the amount of support required.
Make Backyard More Functional
They also tend to eat up precious space and prove difficult to landscape while hills and mounds can be attractive features in their own right. You can add more functional space to your yard which can then be used for planting by creating terraces using a sequence of retaining walls. To showcase different features such as patios and gardens more prominently, terracing also creates an imposing and attractive façade for your yard
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If you believe revetment and/or retaining walls will benefit your East Hampton, NY property, call the experts of Mickey’s Lawnscapes and let us design and install your landscape features.
