About Our Retaining Wall Work in San Francisco

Why we do retaining walls

San Fran Retaining Wall Pros exists because retaining walls are the part of a house nobody thinks about until it moves. A wall leans, a driveway cracks, a backyard starts sliding toward the neighbor, and suddenly it's the most urgent thing on the property.

San Francisco makes it worse. The hills are steep, the clay is stubborn and the rain comes in bursts. Too many walls get built to look good on day one and give out by the third winter. We build them the other way around.

What we care about

We care about the parts nobody sees. The footing under the wall. The rock behind it. The pipe that carries water to a real outlet. Those are the details that decide whether a wall is still standing in twenty years.

We care about telling the truth, too. If your wall can be repaired, we'll say so. If it needs to come out, we'll explain why it moved in the first place. If a tall wall needs an engineer, we'll tell you before you've spent a dollar on the wrong plan.

How we work

Every job starts with a walk around the lot. We look at the slope, the soil, the water and whatever sits on top of the wall, like a driveway or a house. We check access, because a stairs-only yard needs a different plan than a flat lot with a driveway.

Then we talk through the options in plain language. Concrete, block, stone, timber, boulder or gabion. Each has a place, and each has limits. You'll know what we'd build and why.

On the job, we keep the site tidy, we keep the neighbors in the loop and we keep the drainage right. Walls over four feet, and walls carrying a load, get engineered drawings, permits and inspections, because that's how a wall earns its place in a hillside.

What we build

We build and fix retaining walls across San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area. That covers new installation, repair, replacement and drainage, plus every common wall type from timber and block to stone, boulder, gabion and hillside systems.

Browse our retaining wall services to see how each one works, or look through the cities we work in to see what we run into around the Bay. When you're ready, call and we'll set up a visit.