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Tips & Insights

Practical advice on concrete, walls, drainage and groundwork from the Lobos Landscape & Hardscaper crew.

Why Retaining Walls Fail — And What Actually Holds Them Up

A leaning wall is almost never a block problem. It is a base problem or a water problem, and both are decided before the first course goes down.

Standing water, a soggy patch that never dries, a damp crawlspace. They are usually the same problem wearing different clothes.

Pavers do not sink because the pavers were bad. They sink because of the three layers you cannot see once the job is done.

Sod does not fail on the day it is laid. It fails in week two, and almost always for one of two reasons.