Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Retaining Wall - which wall is mine? 2Jan 21, 2014 10:57 pm I believe the party that alters the natural landscape or fall of land is responsible to then retain it. If you are cutting into the land you need to retain it, just as if you then fill on the other side of the block to level the land, you are responsible to retain it also. Same applies to both blocks either side of you, which means you will share in the cost of both retaining walls. Re: Retaining Wall - which wall is mine? 3Jan 22, 2014 10:13 am The concept of sharing the cost is not always what plays out in real life though. If you happen to be the first to commence building is a new area with no one either side of you then whom do you share the cost with? In theory you could try and recover 50% of the retaining wall costs from your neighbours when they start to build. Good luck. Re: Retaining Wall - which wall is mine? 4Jan 22, 2014 11:52 am Obviously if you don't have neighbours either side you can't share the cost and you can't try and recover 50% or any % of your costs because they are your costs to retain your cut or fill. It's not the same as a fence. If you absolutely can't contact your neighbours, then you can only retain your cut or fill and when the neighbour builds they then add their wall below your fill or above your cut but it ends up looking messy! Not to mention the added cost of having to possibly underpin your neighbours garage if you need to cut that side of your block. Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5179 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16140 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6901 |