Retaining Wall Construction in Gaston, OR

Retaining walls are one of the most common hardscape builds in Gaston and across the Portland Metro Area, and for good reason — Oregon's slopes, clay soil, and wet winters make a wall the difference between a usable, level yard and a hillside that washes away with every rain. But a retaining wall is only as good as what's under it and behind it. We build walls that actually hold back earth: a compacted crushed-rock base dug to firm ground, block or stone set plumb and level, and gravel backfill with a drainage path so hydrostatic pressure never builds up against it.

We've built retaining walls across the Portland Metro Area since 1998 — more than 25 years — so we know what the area's clay soil and slopes do to a wall that's built wrong. The number-one reason walls fail here is water building up behind them with nowhere to go — which is why every wall we build gets clean gravel backfill and a drainage outlet. That's the part most crews shortcut, and it's the part that decides whether your wall lasts five years or fifty.

Retaining walls range from short garden-bed walls that tidy up a planting area to taller walls that carve a level lawn or patio out of a slope. We build in segmental block for most structural walls — interlocking, strong, and clean-faced — and natural stone or pressure-treated timber where the look or budget calls for it. We help you pick the material that lasts and matches the house, and we tell you up front what the whole build costs — base, drainage, materials, and haul-off.

A lot of our work is replacing walls that another crew built without drainage, and that are now bowing or leaning. We tear them out and rebuild them right — base, compaction, drainage, and all — so you're not back here in five years looking at the same problem on a bigger lot. Whether you need a new wall to create level space out of a slope or a failing wall rebuilt the right way, we handle it from estimate to finished grade.