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Terraces & Walls                                                                                                                   
 

When ordering rock for rock retaining walls and terraces, we will need the following:

1-Chosen color of the rock

2-3 Determine Stacking Style and Rock thickness.

 Stacking Style

 Remember that you typically can not tell which type of stacking style has been used after the wall is complete. This is mostly for economy and strength. We have seen where some of these walls can be less expensive than others, in no set style. Sometimes the structural walls are more money and the Max Stack walls are less, and vice versa. We will work hard to help you find the best wall for the price and your needs.

Brick Stack™= The brick stack takes rocks that are similar in size and stacks them like bricks. each rock uses the smallest face out. This option is for an application that has the maximum number of consistent sized rows in a retaining wall. This style is a very stable way to stack rock, and the customers using this method will be able to stack the rocks more steeply than the Max Stack.

Structural Stack™= This stacking style is used where it is required that the wall be more steep, and as structurally sound as possible. Sometimes there will be a sidewalk at the bottom of the wall and a driveway at the top of the wall. If this is the case and there is not enough room to tip the wall back into the hill like on the Max stack, then you will want to use a structural stack. This style requires the rocks to drop in size on each row, giving a very structurally sound rock retaining wall if done correctly. This is not necessary when using rocks in short "decorative only" types of rock retaining.

Max Stack™= Quite often this is the most economical retaining style. This style requires a very shallow slope, 45 degrees if possible. This style will use the largest face forward and also decrease the size of the rocks on each row as the rows go up the hill.  This type of retaining is more easy to build using a mini-excavator with a thumb.  Skid loaders are difficult to use for this style.

Rock Thickness= We can spend extra time finding rocks that are a little thinner or thicker if it will help your rock application. We do charge a little more to spend the extra time so we recommend the regular mix of thicknesses unless you require a special thickness.

4-Find the average VERTICAL height.

This measurement is the actual vertical height needed to retain the terrace or hill.

5-Find the Horizontal Space required, or limited to for the wall.

             As steep as allowed               More shallow      

If you are only selecting a 1 Row terrace, then enter 1 foot for the horizontal space. This means that the showing face of the rock will be tipped into the hill one foot.

 This is the amount of yard that the wall will take up in your yard. (measurement from the front of the bottom rock to the front-top of the top rock).

This measurement helps us find the slope of the face of the wall.  The recommended horizontal space for any rock retaining wall is the same number as the vertical height.  This leaves the wall at a 45 degree angle which really makes it so that the plants can grow between the rocks and glue the rocks together. Erosion will wash dirt to the bottom of the wall every time the sprinklers come on if the plants cant take hold and glue the rocks together.

                                                                                                          Example shows the added face footage of a 45 degree angle wall

Too steep to have any plants between the rocks!

The horizontal space is the part of the equation that determines how steep the rock wall is going to be when it is completed.  If you build the wall too steep then there will be no way for the plants to glue the rocks together. Without a slope shallow enough for plants to hang on to, you will have a beautiful wall with no ability to protect from erosion. This means that every time you turn on your sprinklers you will get a pile of dirt on your grass or sidewalk below the rock wall. Plants are really important for more than just erosion, they really make the wall come to life with color.

6-Length of the rock retaining wall or terrace

7-Desired number of rock rows in the wall or terrace

Note: For Golden Sunset and Desert Cinnamon boulders in the Brick and Structural Stacking Styles only, you will not be able to have definite rows. These rock colors are more slab like and are not consistent in thickness, enough to count on an exact number of rows. Also Desert Cinnamon and Golden Sunset boulders are so much thinner in shape that it would require 5-10 rows where any other rock would need only 2-3 rows.  Click here for an example of a wall showing one of these colors mentioned.

8-Desired space between the rocks (only from left to right and not bottom to top)

9-Delivery zip code

10-Landscaper wholesale code if available for a wholesale discount.

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