Retaining Walls
Protect sloped areas, manage soil, and improve your landscape with professionally built retaining walls from Jamison Home Services. We repair, rebuild, and install durable masonry walls designed to provide support while enhancing the appearance of your property.
Retaining Walls Built for Long-Term Performance
Retaining walls help hold back soil, manage changes in elevation, reduce erosion, and create more usable areas throughout a property. When properly designed, they can also become an attractive landscape feature.
Over time, pressure from soil, water, roots, settling, and freeze-and-thaw cycles can cause walls to crack, lean, bow, separate, or collapse. These conditions may become more severe when drainage behind the wall is inadequate.
Jamison Home Services evaluates the wall, surrounding grade, drainage, and visible movement before recommending repair, rebuilding, or replacement. Our team creates retaining walls that balance strength, function, and appearance.
Schedule a Wall Evaluation
Benefits of a Properly Built Retaining Wall
A quality retaining wall supports the landscape while helping your outdoor areas function more effectively.
Control Soil Movement
Retaining walls support raised landscape areas and help reduce shifting soil on sloped properties.
Reduce Erosion
Properly placed walls help prevent soil from washing into lawns, walkways, patios, and neighboring areas.
Create Usable Space
Walls can divide elevations and create flatter areas for planting beds, patios, walkways, and outdoor living.
Improve Curb Appeal
Coordinated stone, brick, or block walls add structure, texture, and a finished appearance to the landscape.
Retaining Wall Material Options
Wall materials can be selected to coordinate with the home, patio, walkway, landscaping, and surrounding masonry.
Natural Stone
Natural stone offers unique variation and a timeless appearance that blends beautifully with gardens and traditional landscapes.
Segmental Wall Block
Manufactured wall block is available in multiple colors, shapes, and textures for clean, consistent, and versatile designs.
Brick and Masonry
Brick, concrete block, stone veneer, and masonry caps can be combined to coordinate with the architecture of the home.
Decorative Capstones
Smooth or textured caps create a finished top surface while helping protect the wall beneath.
Mixed Materials
Stone, brick, pavers, and masonry accents can be combined to coordinate retaining walls with patios, walkways, and steps.
Low Landscape Walls
Smaller garden and seating walls provide visual structure without requiring the height of a larger retaining system.
Our Retaining Wall Process
Our team evaluates the wall and surrounding property before recommending the appropriate repair or construction plan.
Site Evaluation
We review the wall, soil conditions, slope, drainage, nearby structures, and visible signs of movement.
Repair or Design Plan
Our team recommends localized repair, rebuilding, or a new wall based on the condition and project goals.
Foundation and Drainage
The wall area is prepared with attention to the base, grading, backfill, and drainage behind the structure.
Masonry Construction
The wall is repaired or built before the area is finished, inspected, and cleaned.