Freestanding Walls
Freestanding walls make for great top-of-wall finishes or stand-alone structures. With texture on two or more sides of the precast modular blocks, Redi-Rock freestanding walls look great, in addition to maintaining the structural integrity of a solution.
Why Choose a Freestanding Wall?
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Implement Versatile Solutions
Freestanding blocks provide great versatility in the Redi-Rock system. With solid and hollow-core options, they can help solve problems from flood control to force protection.
Coordinate with Retaining Walls
Whether it’s a seat wall adjacent to or a barrier on top of a retaining wall, the seamless look and feel of freestanding and retaining products from Redi-Rock makes coordinating a no brainer.
Create Grand Entrances & Signs
The great textures of Redi-Rock can be used on elements other than traditional walls. Freestanding blocks are great for creating a privacy screening, framing an entrance, or holding up a sign.
Commonly Used Blocks in Freestanding Walls
Freestanding blocks can help provide solutions from force protection to parapet walls and corner details to cantilever options. Available in both solid and hollow-core with the signature Redi-Rock textures on multiple faces, they’re great options for finishing off a project perfectly.
Freestanding Hollow-Core Blocks are a versatile element of the Redi-Rock system used in cantilever or flood wall applications, as well as making it easier to attach barriers to the top of a wall without the need for core drilling. Freestanding Hollow-Core Blocks are also available in corner, half, and half corner varieties.
Freestanding straight blocks are textured on two sides, allowing for great looking above grade solutions. They can be used in stand-alone structures or as parapet walls to top of retaining walls. The straight freestanding block is also available in bottom, top or garden top varieties.
Variable Radius Freestanding Middle Blocks are used to help build fluid curves into walls without having to cut blocks. The recess at the end of the blocks allows for convex and concave curves. The variable radius block is also available in bottom, top or garden top varieties.
Force Protection Freestanding Middle Blocks have a 6-inch (152mm) diameter recess in each end to accommodate J-bolts that are used to secure the blocks to each other or to earth anchors. Force protection blocks are also available in top and bottom varieties. View force protection details.
Textured on three sides, Freestanding Corner Middle Blocks are used to provide polished looking end results. Freestanding corner blocks are also available in bottom, top or garden top varieties.
Freestanding Hollow-Core Blocks are a versatile element of the Redi-Rock system used in cantilever or flood wall applications, as well as making it easier to attach barriers to the top of a wall without the need for core drilling. Freestanding Hollow-Core Blocks are also available in corner, half, and half corner varieties.
Freestanding straight blocks are textured on two sides, allowing for great looking above grade solutions. They can be used in stand-alone structures or as parapet walls to top of retaining walls. The straight freestanding block is also available in bottom, top or garden top varieties.
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Freestanding Wall Case Studies
Efficient Barrier Helps Maximize Buildable Footprint
When a new gas station was to be constructed in an incredibly tight footprint, a slope needed to be replaced with a retaining wall that could support the existing building and parking lot on the other side of the property line. Schreiter Concrete provided the Redi-Rock blocks for the wall, including the freestanding hollow-core blocks used to create a rebar and concrete reinforced barrier directly atop the retaining wall. The space savings of tying the barrier into the wall design helped maximize the usable space in the prime location.
Spiraling Freestanding Walls Highlight Water-Free Landscaping for DOT
Challenged by the Nevada DOT to landscape 80 acres (32 hectares) along the freeway in Las Vegas without using any water, landscape architects from C.F. Shuler, Inc. turned to Redi-Rock when using native sandstone proved cost-prohibitive. Jensen Precast supplied Redi-Rock freestanding blocks in the Cobblestone texture to build spiraling walls, ranging from 3 feet to 6 feet (0.9 meters to 1.8 meters) tall. The walls were stained to match the native red sandstone and topped off with caps to finish the vision.
Terraced Backyard Creates Ramp Access to Lake Erie
When a homeowner wanted a ramp in their backyard that would lead down to a boathouse on Lake Erie, a smattering of Redi-Rock blocks were used to overcome the 1:1 slope of the hillside and create the vision of landscape architect Doug Baldi. The curving, terraced walls are topped off with freestanding blocks supplied and installed by North Coast Marine Inc. Adorned with lights, the Redi-Rock walls outline and illuminate the stairways, pathways, and mini-putting greens that now make up the homeowner’s backyard.
Available in Great Textures
With the appearance of natural stone, people will have to do a double take to realize it's concrete.
Freestanding Wall Construction Details
From how to attach a fence to the top of your wall or options for the base of your flood control wall, the freestanding wall construction details help you visualize the problem solving potential of Redi-Rock no matter what your project entails.
Can Redi-Rock Solve Your Problems?
"Redi-Rock was chosen to contain the wetland areas with a cost effective structural solution that is compatible with the historic architectural fabric of the Zoo."
Donald Sharp PS&S