{"id":94,"date":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/tip-retaining-walls"},"modified":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T00:00:00","slug":"tip-retaining-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/home-tips\/tip-retaining-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Retaining Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before starting a retaining wall project, check with your local building codes. Soil conditions might need special attention during construction and a permit might be necessary. When altering a slope, the effects might run past your property line. Building a retaining wall requires moving some ground. If at all possible, use a terraced effect by building low walls on a slope rather than a single high one.<\/p>\n<p>Since there is a substantial amount of excavating involved in building a retaining wall, hiring a professional who has access to equipment designed for this purpose would be a good idea. Drainage considerations, foundations, reinforcing rods and more make this a complicated job that is best left to the pros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before starting a retaining wall project, check with your local building codes. Soil conditions might need special attention during construction and a permit might be necessary. When altering a slope, the effects might run past your property line. Building a retaining wall requires moving some ground. If at all possible, use a terraced effect by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concrete-brick-stone","category-home-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}