Your lovely backyard can be the perfect spot for camping and roasting marshmallows and hotdogs while staring at the night sky- if only there was a really nice fire pit to seal the deal. But, don’t you worry. We’ll teach you how to build one using retaining wall blocks! 
 
To build a fire pit for your backyard, you just need some basic skills and a handful of tools, and you can have a nice fire pit within a few hours! 
 
Here’s how: ​

Retaining walls come in different forms and they all cater to different uses. Here, we will be discussing some of the known types of retaining walls. 
 
There are two general categories of retaining walls. The Mechanical Stable Earth Walls and the Conventional Holding Walls. The former is known as one of the most economical and most commonly constructed retaining walls. While the latter is composed of walls built to withstand intense weight and pressure. 
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Is your backyard sloping and hard to walk on, much less set up some cozy chairs for a barbecue session? Do you want to have more level areas to finally be able to plant that flower garden you have always dreamed of? A retaining wall might be the answer. 
 
Retaining walls are permanent fixtures designed to hold back the soil and create level areas of land above and below the retaining wall. It serves many different purposes, both in function and appeal, from preventing erosion, to redesigning the surrounding landscape, and more. ​

​Retaining walls is a type of structure that is built to retain soil or land pressure from sliding or eroding away. These walls are also known to visually enhance the look of your home or commercial space. Installing these types of walls come with different benefits such as preventing floods, erosion, landslides, and even sinkholes that can damage your landscape and remove your soil’s nutrients.