🌿 Installing expansion joints in long garden walls is crucial for maintaining their integrity.

Without these essential gaps, your walls could crack or bow from changes in temperature and moisture.

Here's how to do it right: • Prevent cracking from thermal expansion and contraction.

• Place joints every 3 to 4 metres, or where materials change.

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That reflecting pool on the Capitol Mall?

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Here’s an alternative by US visual artist Betsy Damon, 1998, Chengdu, China to filter the water for the river, creating a now favorite public park.

https://www.keepersofthewaters.org/living-water-garden

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/31/us/trump-reflecting-pool-problems.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n1A.mkiY.nu1GDJItAVXB&smid=url-share
Somehow I don’t think the White House nor the New York Times would think this a good idea from a Chinese 5 year plan. Too environmentally friendly and not foolishly controlling.