Retaining Walls

At Chicago Landscape of Las Vegas we are specialists in designing and constructing retaining walls and handle every aspect of it in the best possible way. We’ve handled a hundreds of retaining wall construction projects and cater to our customers needs in and around Las Vegas, Henderson, and the entire Las Vegas valley.

WHY DO I NEED RETAING WALLS?

If your property has sloping land and you are in need of outdoor features such as a driveway, walkways, a patio, an outdoor kitchen area or even a fire place or fire pit, portions of the slope may have to be excavated.

• Protect Outdoor Landscape Features
• Prevents Erosion and Sink Holes
• Helps Manage Water Runoff
• Numerous Design Options
• Prevent Land Slides
• Prevents Flooding

TYPES OF LANDSCAPE RETAINING WALLS

• Cast-In-Place Retaining Walls
  The most common retaining wall utilized locally are cast- in-place concrete retaining walls. These walls are more common than CMU for a number of reasons, including versatility in design. Structural retaining walls also have large rebar with tight spacing, therefore CMU block walls are not always the best option. 
• CMU Block Retaining Walls
  CMU block walls are generally speaking the simplest walls to construct as there is no form work required during construction. Precast concrete block also known as concrete masonry units or cinder blocks, are placed over a supporting concrete footing. When all blocks and rebar are in place the cells of the blocks are pumped with concrete.

• Shotcrete Retaining Walls
  The third method of retaining wall construction is a Shotcrete retaining wall. Shotcrete walls are constructed in a similar way as cast in place walls but instead of constructing the second side of the form work a special type of concrete, Shotcrete, is then blown onto the single sided form. The Shotcrete is hand finished and the form work removed to reveal a monolithic retaining wall.