Retaining walls: Why should we love them?

No one dreams about retaining walls. For most people, they are simply a necessary part of landscaping a backyard or a problem created by a new home, a failed wall, or a difficult slope. But what if you could fall in love with retaining walls like us? We are here to tell you that this is possible because every resort-like, luxury backyard that you and your family dream of is only made possible by retaining walls. 

Your dream backyard begins with a wall. 

Retaining walls are the foundation for your dream backyard. Every luxury backyard has a backbone of fresh earth being shaped and sturdy walls holding it in place. The paved patio where you will host family gatherings or sit out on during a cool Midwest summer morning to read is buoyed by retaining walls. The endless summer pool where your children will play while you dip your feet feels secluded and resort-like because retaining walls help create the structure and privacy that make it possible. That foreboding slope that was wild and unusable, is now your family's own oasis, fit with a trampoline, pickle ball net, and basketball court. Ultimately, these walls give you and your family the space to make memories of a lifetime. Your perfect backyard, you never want to leave, begins with retaining walls. 

Love for walls that remain standing.

Most people have "fallen out of love" with retaining walls because they have experienced them failing or find they were never built or designed properly to begin with. In order for walls to remain standing and for your love for them to last, they have to be carefully designed and built with expertise. For example, without proper drainage these walls are bound to fail eventually. One Cedar Rapids customer recently shared with us about getting a wall installed only to have it fail a couple years later and sadly having to be redone. We at Heyday Landscaping believe our families from Cedar Rapids, Marion, Iowa City and throughout all of Eastern Iowa, deserve to have walls that stand the test of time and hold their amazing backyards together for generations to come. We want you to fall in love with retaining walls again, Heyday is here to help you do just that. Let's build together the backyard you've always dreamed of.