Fairfax Contractor General Contractor Northern Virginia

Retaining wall contractor Fairfax Contractor is a Northern Virginia company that can build all types of retaining wall projects. In most of the Northern Virginia Counties any retaining wall over 36 inches will require a building permit. Smaller walls such as plantar walls, garden bedding walls, and small retaining walls are exempt from the building permit process. If the retaining wall project you are looking to construct is over 36 inches Fairfax Contractor can utilize two methods to secure the building permit. The first way is to utilize the Fairfax County detail for retaining walls, this method utilizes plans that the county has designed for 4 foot, and 5 foot tall retaining walls. Only residential retaining walls fall under the category of typical retaining wall detail plans in Fairfax. On the Fairfax County retaining wall detail plans located on the county website shows both a wood retaining wall detail and a engineered masonry detail. Now if you want to build a retaining wall 3 feet in height we can utilize our civil engineers to design retaining walls only 3 feet. All counties in Northern Virginia require engineered plans for retaining walls over 3 feet. Our staff can handle getting the necessary permits, zoning, and construction of retaining walls over 3 feet in the height. When your retaining wall project the commercial residential is over 6 feet in height becomes a critical structure. Fairfax Contractor can design and build large retaining wall projects including pork concrete retaining walls, and cinder block retaining walls. We can use a variety of materials including segment block retaining walls, stone face retaining walls , brick, or even pressure treated wood retaining walls in Northern Virginia.