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Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides.
Retaining walls are structures designed to restrain soil to a slope that it would not naturally keep to (typically a steep, near-vertical or vertical slope). They are used to bound soils between two different elevations often in areas of terrain possessing undesirable slopes or in areas where the landscape needs to be shaped severely and engineered for more specific purposes like hillside farming or roadway overpasses. A retaining wall that retains soil on the backside and water on the frontside is called a seawall or a bulkhead.

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    NSW Retaining wall on the boundary - who's responsible?

    The timber retaining wall between my property and my neighbour's is on the boundary and the fence is right on top of the retaining with fence posts attached to the retaining wall posts. Mine is on the high side of the wall. When we bought our house approximately about 2 years ago, we noticed...
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    VIC Retaining wall

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    VIC Retaining Wall Costs

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  4. Jerry21

    QLD Retaining wall and Fencing

    Hi, Thanks in advance! I just like to ask an advise for 2 things we live at Queensland. 1). Our block is situated on a corner block and the Developer cut it in a way that the retaining walls on our rear and left side ( neighbors side ) would not be higher than 1m which the retaining would be...
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    NSW Neighbour has excavated beyond the boundary, and now we need a retaining wall

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    WA retaining wall am I liable to pay repairs ?

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    VIC retaining wall up to 1 meter in pakenham vic

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  9. Wallaby

    QLD Retaining Wall Responsibility

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  10. dazzwoodwardpho

    QLD Retaining wall nightmare

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