Timber Retaining Walls

Landscape walls and property/boundary definition via structural walls: The positive effects of constructing a wall to define outdoor living space and to delimit potential erosion caused by hills, steep slopes or proximal tidal shorelines.

Decorative and aesthetically pleasing, retaining walls and similarly named structures have many applications and utility for use on your personal property. Would you like to provide definition to your outside space? Would you like a barrier to prevent potential shoreline erosion from tidal waters uplands? Does your outdoor space need definition to define the use and appeal of outdoor living spaces? Would you like to define planting beds and potentially delimit the spread of invasive species of weeds? Is a form of containment necessary for farm animals, pets, vermin, wildlife, children, or perhaps grandchildren? RG Murphy can help!

The design is up to YOU, and RG Murphy can provide this service with a no-cost estimate to construct and build your outside area to match the unique landscape of your property, and at the same time enhance your outside living area to match the unique qualities of the inside of your home on the outside. Use, and the design of outside living spaces is just as valuable and important as the indoor spaces of your real estate space. Maximize the return on your investment!

Curb appeal from land or water is always a plus in Lower Sussex County, Delaware, Worcester County, Maryland, and to regions surrounding and about Ocean City, Maryland! No matter whether or not your property is waterfront, waterfront view, or no waterfront acreage at all. Retaining Walls can provide an enhancement to the utility and value of your property; this personalized service may be an option that you would like to consider!

An assessment of your needs, and the details you provide about your vision to create your dream outdoor property landscape and design will help us determine the height and length of the wall needed, and the most appropriate timber materials needed to install and construct a Retaining Wall that will provide many years of enjoyment, with decorative enhancements as feasible, and appropriate, but most importantly, the best, most pleasing aesthetics and appeal of the final project, with a lifetime of returns on the investment for many years to come. A Win-Win in real estate turn-over.

On a hilly slope, your vision may require the construction of more than one short wall, or walls of various heights depending upon the slope. We can assist you in designing the number of walls and the respective heights and lengths needed in order to sustain the banks from further erosion, thereby decreasing slope size and run-off, i.e., to sustain the property as it appeared when you first purchased it. What a plus!

Your retaining wall can also properly direct drainage and water run-off to protect planting beds, and to preserve your uplands for years to come. Simple boundary or property-line defining walls can help you enhance and protect your property and its' contents from intruders of all sorts – your neighbors' weeds, unwanted growth of intrusive property line plantings, or unwanted wildlife visitors, or others, for example.