by Jennifer
(Ohio)
Hello. We just built a home on top of a hill. In order to get a backyard for our boys to play, we had to put in a retaining wall which is 10-12 feet at it's highest point. The wall is made of concrete blocks that are dry mounted. The builder had a fencing company place an aluminum fence in the top layer of the wall. We moved in in November and during a December storm we noticed the fence along with the blocks the posts were in blew over the back of the wall. The posts were only drilled into the cap blocks and no glue or cement was used to anchor any of the blocks on the wall. Since that time, the wall guy has "glued" the blocks with the posts in them twice now, and the blocks are still completely loose. You can gently push them over and completely out of the rest of the wall. I'm being told so many different things by our contractor, our fence people and our wall guy. Now they want to reglue it again! Is it safe to put a fence in the wall? If so, can you really just put the fence posts in the cap layer and glue it? Should I be pushing to have the fence installed in the ground? Problem is the back yard is so small and putting the fence in the ground will take away 2-3 feet of space! We would like to have it in the wall (ONLY IF IT'S SAFE) -but what is the proper way or should we bite the bullet and install it in the ground? I have 3 young boys.
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"Susan, what a pleasure it was to work with you. You made me feel like I was your only client - responding late at night and always so quickly! Your design is amazing and we only hope we can do justice to it when we plant . You have such fantastic ideas and you are so open to suggestions and changes. Loved working with you - now if you could only come to Canada and plant it !!! "
Helen, Ontario-Canada
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