About RetainingWallGuide
We help homeowners understand retaining wall costs, repairs and drainage, and find contractors who do the specific retaining-wall work they need.
What we do
Retaining walls are a narrow specialty inside landscaping, masonry and concrete work. Plenty of companies list them as a service, but fewer can tell you why a wall is leaning or design drainage for a tall one. We publish plain-language guides on cost, repair and drainage, and a directory that records which retaining-wall services each contractor has shown they offer.
Who runs this site
RetainingWallGuide is an independent guide and contractor directory. We don’t build, repair or inspect walls ourselves.
How we make money
Basic contractor listings are free and show the contractor’s own phone number and website. We don’t charge anyone for calls or website visits. When a homeowner asks us to pass their project to a contractor through our request form, that contractor may pay us for the request. Contractors can also pay for sponsored placement, which is always labelled. Payment never changes what we say a contractor does, and we don’t sell your details to multiple contractors at once.
What we don’t do
- We don’t build, repair or inspect walls.
- We don’t diagnose problems from photos or descriptions.
- We don’t claim a contractor is licensed, insured or “verified” unless we have current evidence of that specific claim.
Read our editorial policy and how we review contractors.
Photo credits
Photos on this site are illustrative and used under the Unsplash License. They don’t show work by contractors listed in our directory.
- Segmental concrete block garden wall with a cap course and a planted bed in front: photo by Sergej on Unsplash
- Courses of tan concrete wall blocks laid in a running bond: photo by Sergej on Unsplash
- Stained concrete retaining wall along a slope with vegetation growing on its face: photo by T on Unsplash
- Weathered timber retaining wall in black and white: photo by Y on Unsplash
- Concrete crib retaining wall with gravel-filled cells: photo by nhxl bdl on Unsplash
- Dry-stacked fieldstone wall with daffodils on the slope behind it: photo by Wolfgang Weiser on Unsplash
- Close-up of a fieldstone wall built from rounded stones of mixed colors: photo by James Park on Unsplash
- Gabion retaining wall of stone-filled wire baskets below a planted slope: photo by Milan Trninic on Unsplash