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an outdoor patio with stone steps and planters in the center, surrounded by green grass

WoodBlocX is ideal for building modular retaining walls, making it a great alternative to bricks, stone and railway sleepers. We’ve provided a rundown of the materials you can use to build retaining walls in your garden and how the WoodBlocX retaining wall stacks up against them. Head to the website to read more

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an empty parking lot next to a tree and fenced in area with brick walkway

I'm currently in the final phases of putting together a quote for a project with some fairly large retaining walls and the client has asked me to provide revised costs to replace a block and render retaining wall with vertical sleepers. The wall is to be between 1m and 1.2m tall running approximately 20m. In the attached picture the wall will replace the existing old stone wall to the right. The new level of the lawn will be approximately 0.2 metres lower than it is in the picture. The…

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the back yard is being dug up and ready to be used as an outdoor space

Sleeper retaining walls have been topical of late but for all the wrong reasons. When used effectively i.e. in the right place for the right application, old railways sleepers can be a strong ornamental feature for creating vegetable beds or formal plants and shrub borders or even, perhaps, as the boundaries to lawns or to create terraces to make use of a sloped and otherwise unusable piece of ground. Jane asked this question in the 'Cowboys from the wild west' thread but I feel it's…

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an outdoor patio with chairs and table in the middle of graveled area next to a wooden fence

Upright sleeper boards were installed to terrace the garden and enlarge the lower area to make it more usable. An "exploded" sandstone patio was then laid with generous shingle joints to allow for the planting of herbs. Two raised sleeper beds were created and the beds filled with grasses and perennials for a Mediterranean feel. The top area was levelled and seeded and the old fence replaced with a close board fence and a beech hedge.The job was finished off with down lighters in the sleeper…

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