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Frank J Warner
 
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Default Galvanized steel piling

Finishing up my house. Back yard is last thing I have to do. It's got a
hillside that slopes down maybe 20 degrees to the back my house. I need
to put retaining walls to keep this hillside from ending up in my
bedroom during next year's heavy rain.

This evening, while taking my walk, I followed a dry creekbed that had
been shored up in places with heavy guage galvanized corrugated sheet
metal. Looks very much like this stuff:

http://www.cajunmarineconstruction.c...ing_Walls.html

It actually looked pretty good to me, as I tend to go with
non-traditional landscape treatments wherever I can get away with it. I
liked the industrial feel, and it looked like the metal walls had been
in place for at least a couple of decades with little or no corrosion.

The stuff is perfect for my application, but I don't have any
experience with it. Especially whether it's something a handy guy could
install himself, or even where to buy it within a reasonable distance
of my house (California Central Coast).

Anybody ever work with this stuff?

-Frank

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