u/ClarkMorelia

First off, wanted to give flowers to my dad who built this himself 40 years ago when they were about to have kids so we would have a flat yard to play in. Stacked rail road ties then filled with rock and soil. The question is, what to do with this monster now that it’s on its last days (minutes?). My first thought is build a new wall around it and let the existing wall just decay inside of the new one. I can’t see any way that a new wall financially makes sense, so maybe just grading it back down the hill and doing a small deck off the back of the house.

For context this is in Pittsburgh so having a $300k house with a million dollar retaining wall would be pretty wild for them or the next owners.