You have two options for building a retaining wall with concrete. If you're set on getting the job done yourself without professional assistance, using concrete blocks is the way to go. Concrete ...

But now, more than a year and a half after he started using turn-of-the-century machinery to make 170 antique-style concrete blocks, the 35-foot-long by 3-foot-high wall is finally complete.

A. Poured concrete and concrete block are the two foundation types that dominate the residential construction industry here in the USA. I’ve built buildings using both materials.

When concrete cures inside the ICFs the forms stay in place to provide insulation inside and out. Walls generally are between 4 inches and 12 inches thick, depending on the location and climate.

As Ron and Barbara Marshall observe in Concrete Screen Block, the curtain wall outside the American Embassy closely resembled the cast concrete walls of Notre Dame du Raincy, built in the early 1920s.

Concrete block is manufactured with a hollow-core structure that allows for optimized designs. This increases efficiency while using fewer raw materials.