Construction methods to repair a deflected retaining wall

Step 1: Clear all the unwanted plants, thrash around the damage retaining wall.

Step 2: Based on the soil strength, Small concrete walls 4 ft. to 5ft high or less can often be
permanently supported in place by coring a hole (usually around 12 in. diameter) through the wall
and then installing a Tieback Anchor which goes in several feet, sloping down through the loose soils
which are loading the wall and down into strong bearing soils.  These Tieback Anchors are usually
Helical Tieback which can penetrate the hard clay or very dense sands which generally constitute the
bearing soil layers which are a cohesive formation that does not move or slide. The densest of these
soils layers in this area is Glacial Till, which were fine silts that were compacted by the Glaciers into a
very hard, rock like formation. Where Glacial till is the bearing soil layer Injection Boring Anchors
must be used for Tiebacks.  Injection Boring Anchors allow penetration into hard layers that would
resist a Helical Tieback Anchor.  After the Tieback Anchors are in place the shaft of the Anchor is
adapted into threaded bar that extends out though the wall.  A large steel plate with a hole in the
centre for the Anchor rod can then be placed against the wall.  Large Anchor nuts and Wedged
bearing washers are then used to secure the plate tight to the wall.  Many of the short walls we
Tieback in the greater Seattle area are walls along a sidewalk or Alley right-of-way.  The
Municipalities in this area have allowed me to put Tieback Anchors to stabilize these walls even if
they exist in a non-conforming state (in or protruding into a city owned street, sidewalk, or alley
right-of-way). When that is not the case the ends of the anchor rods with the washers and nuts are
visible on the outside of the plate. We have also developed a method of making the connection to
the plate inside of the wall for the locations where the city does not want protuberances into the
right-of-way that could be dangerous. In those applications the plate are connected to a apparatus
that allows the Anchor to connect to the plate inside the wall and all that is visible outside is the
large steel plate with a small steel plate tacked over the hole where the connection is made.  We
have included pictures of both applications in this section.