Retaining walls seem to be relatively simple structures; they often are. However, the law surrounding them can be a little confusing. Since you probably don’t want to run afoul of the law, it helps to familiarise yourself with what it says about retaining walls. You can educate yourself on this important topic below.

Who’s Responsibility Is It?

Unfortunately, retaining walls aren’t always needed on just a single property. From time to time, the situation requires that a retaining wall be built between two different properties. In such a scenario, who is responsible for having it built? This must be decided between the two parties; if an agreement can’t be reached, then the courts may need to get involved. Ideally, though, you’ll be able to work something out with your neighbour.

If a retaining wall is needed on the boundary of a property, it can sometimes be built just on one side of the boundary line. In fact, this is the ideal solution – the neighbour who actually requires the retaining wall should have it built on their side of the line. Occasionally, two neighbours may decide to go in on a retaining wall together. In that case, the most fair way to handle it is by having the retaining wall straddle both properties. In terms of costs, the neighbours should try to split them as equitably as possible.

What About Council Approval?

If your retaining wall will provide a difference in level of less than one metre, then you won’t need to seek Council approval. However, if the difference in levels exceeds that amount, then you’re going to need to get approval. Make sure that you know ahead of time what sort of level you’ll require. Otherwise, you’ll have to interrupt your work and seek Council approval in the middle of the project; if you fail to get approved, all of that work will have been for nothing.

Types of Retaining Walls –

You have several options when it comes to retaining walls. Concrete sleepers and vertical steel configurations are the most popular choices, since they are inexpensive and easy to build. Soil batter can be performed in cases where very little alterations need to be made to the level of the soil. If you’d like an especially attractive look, you might consider dry stone, moss rock or modular block retaining walls. These are vastly preferable to wood, since termites can make home in it. You should still have a pest inspection company check your home for termites from time to time, though, to be safe.

Faith is the key element to activate the power of mind achieve your desire. Once you become clear of what you exactly want develop a firm faith that your desire is coming your way. Hold a picture of your desire on your mind as if the desire is already fulfilled. This stimulates the subconscious mind to send positive vibrations to the universal power to manifest your desire.

The power of faith is strong that it send a conviction into your subconscious mind to bring you plans, people, and circumstances that resonate in vibration with your desire.

Therefore begin to see yourself in possession of your desire. Believe that you have it already. See all the wealth you want, the love you desire, the joy you crave and all the things you want to experience.

Thoughts in the ether accumulate to manifest into their physical equivalent. When you think about your desire, you are send out thoughts into the universal ether which permeates everything. Your thoughts become unified with those of the universal intelligence thereby accumulating similar thought energy and manifest in physical form within your environment. That is how the law of attraction work in bringing like things together.

It is important to avoid thoughts of doubt, fear and negativity because these thoughts are received by the universe just as good as the positive ones. If left unchecked these negative thoughts will attract to you negative outcomes.

So always hold firmly in you mind the picture of your positive desire with faith. Be certain that the desired good is definitely coming you way.

Affirm that what your mind can conceive and believe you can achieve because this is surely so. Do not let any negative thought quench your faith. Your faith is the evidence of the things you hope for, therefore guard it and hold it firmly until your desire is fulfilled.

I was sent this story as a PowerPoint presentation today by a friend. I thought that it was wonderful and I needed to share it with all of you. .

Two men both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs. His bed was next to the rooms only window.
The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roomate all the things he could see outside of the window. The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and colour of the world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst folwers of every colour and a fine view of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine the picturesque scene. One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man could not hear the band, he could see it in his minds eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in his sleep. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As son as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch and after making sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look at the real world outside. He strained to slowly turn and look out the window beside the bed.

It faced a brick wall.

The man asked the nurse what would have compelled his deceased roommate who had described such wonderful things outside this window. The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall. She said, Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.

Epilogue:
There is tremendous happiness in making others happy despite our own situations. Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled. If you want to feel rich, just count all things you have that money cant buy. Today is a gift that is why it is called The Present

There are so many points for you to take from this story:

We are all so busy trying to make it in life that we often miss how grateful we should be for the smaller things in life, like, having someone to talk to or someone to share our day with.
What a wonderful thing it is to make someone elses day a little brighter, no matter what is going on in yours. If you take on this attitude then you will attract more of the same into your life. It really is a win-win situation.
The power of visualisation to change our lives completely. You can take yourself to a different place, where life may be as you want it. You can take yourself to a place where you are feeling different emotions. It shows that through visualisation you have the power to create a different life for yourself. If you want something different in your life and you want it immediately then visualise yourself having it.
Today is a gift that is why it is called The Present. You want to be visualising your future goals, but dont forget to live in the present, in the moment. Be grateful for all you have and enjoy the time you have right now. It is said that a year in the future is closer to you than 10 minutes ago because you can never go back to that time, only forward.
Grasp life with both hands. Be grateful for everything you have right now, big or small. Use visualisations to picture what your future will be.

I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I did.

There is no hard and fast rule as to the time it will take for abundance to manifest into your life because this depends on your alignment with the universe and the Law of Attraction.

It took my car 2 months to manifest since I started visualizing it in my mind but you think I was disappointed. I was ecstatic because it was 4 months earlier than expected. I just provided the desire, the thought, and the feelings then released it to the universe and it lead me to opportunities and circumstances so that I can manifest my desire into my reality. I guess the reason for super charging the manifestation of my car was because I believed that I already have it. Can you imagine me buying accessories for the car two weeks before I had it? My daughter thought it outrageous at that time but it worked. I now know what the Law of Attraction meant when it say that ‘if you get yourself onto the universal frequency of what you want, then what you want will appear.’

The Law of Attraction states that ‘size is nothing to the universe’ therefore there is no request too large for it to be manifested into our life. Manifesting wealth depends on your ability to visualize and believe that you can achieve it. The only reason why many people fall short of their desires to manifest their dreams into their reality is their concept that some of their request maybe too big. But the Law of Attraction states that if you provide the feeling of having it now it will respond whatever it is.

But if you ask me how long it will take for your desire to manifest, I’d say I have no idea because there is no time line for an individuals’ manifestation using the Law of Attraction. There are people who have easier time manifesting small things that’s why they always recommend that you start with small requests so that when you see the results with your own eyes you can get your mind to accept it and this will align you to bigger manifestations. Build your trust in the Law of Attraction and you won’t even have to ask how long you will manifest your desires. Our inner thoughts run continually that’s why it should be in alignment with our mind so that it will not waver in its belief for negative thoughts and deliver to us what we truly desire.

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