Implementing Landscaping Blocks In Your Home Landscaping Design

Planning your landscape with landscaping blocks will really give you the chance to let your imagination run wild, but remember that it is important to consider your house’s architectural style before getting too far ahead of yourself and throwing landscaping blocks wherever you please.

Landscaping Blocks - Plan Your Project

Before you do anything else you are going to have to plan out your project. The best idea is to budget your renovations, and make sure that you are aware of how much money you have to spend without interfering with any of your other finances.

Draw your plan out, drawing to scale is the best idea so that you can simplify the calculations and make the project easier in general. You will want to consider walkways, access ways, surfaces, retaining walls and low walls, lawns, stairs, and any other feature in your yard.

Landscaping Blocks - Block Retaining Wall

Of all the different designs you can create with landscaping blocks, a retaining wall is by far one of the very best. If you want to level a steep slope on your property a concrete block retaining wall may be just what you are looking for. It is easy to maintain and adds a lot to any landscaping design.

You only need a few basic tools and materials, including a chisel, drilling hammer, carpenter’s level, mason’s line, line level, flat-pointed shovel, hand tamper, gloves, safety glasses, back support, retaining wall blocks, porous landscape fabric, gravel, leveling sand, and wood stakes.

There are a few things you are going to want to keep in mind when getting started on your retaining wall. When trying to decide on how many blocks you are going to need for your design, remember that they are basically always one foot long and so use this to make the appropriate calculations.

When it comes to cutting the blocks, you need to score a line around it with a 3 ½” brick chisel and a 3 lb. sledgehammer, and place the cutting edge of the chisel in the center of the score line then strike the chisel sharply with the sledgehammer, as this will give you the best cut and therefore the best results.