Allie is an Austin-based writer in the sustainability, home improvement, and real estate niches. Throughout her career, she has taken on the trials and errors of many landscaping, gardening, and ...

They are typically made of concrete or pavers and offer slip-resistant surfaces ... multiple tiers or levels of outdoor living space. Stairs or ramps can connect them and are ideal for creating ...

If so, you can simply remodel it with new decking, rails and stairs, and save tons of money over the cost ... See what went into designing this one. Retaining walls were built to bring the stone patio ...

Beveled retaining rings are used for endplay take-up; the ring has beveled angle (usually 15°). The beveled angle on the ring mates to a complimentary angle on the groove wall during installation, ...

WATERLOO — The city could receive federal money to analyze the railyard on East Fourth Street for possible relocation. The City Council will on Monday consider approving an aid agreement with ...

“I could live more easily in Kabul than in suburban New Jersey,” the writer Ann Marlowe professed in one of her columns — this one, filed for the New York Observer in 2005, was about being ...

City officials are hoping that others sign in with in-kind donations for such work as sidewalks, stairs, retaining walls, metal railings, electrical, earthwork, brick pavers, landscaping and site ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Missing stairs, cracked walls, and unsafe balconies are only some the conditions identified at a North Shore apartment complex in an audit State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli ...

Learned not enough mortar was used. A pool design of waterfalls resulted in a water leaking behind retaining wall which also needed repair. We have replaced two pool pumps and learned that we had ...

"My boyfriend put his hands on my neck and smashed my head against the wall," she is quoted as saying in the police report. "Then he pushed me down the stairs, and that's how I got these injuries." ...