Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Cement bag concrete bag retaining wall.
Concrete runs about 4 bucks a bag and at height of 3 or so would require a good number to provide 3 feet of wall.
Rip rap is also available in a biodegradable polyester scrim reinforced kraft bag for improved durability.
They look like sandbags but are actually hessian bags filled with wet concrete and pinned together with steel rods making a good solid retaining wall.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
From a cost perspective basic wall blocks would look much better and be cheaper you could set them up as a pair if you need to extend beyond the 2 foot height limit.
Step 7 fill the trench between the dirt and the concrete wall with some gravel.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways above is not a trivial matter.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
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This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
That s right the idea is that you don t open the packaging.
The 2020 update is now up today june 15 2020 a 5 5 minute video update about my concrete bag retaining wall it s a real nail biter.
Rip rap is a sand and cement mixture packaged in a biodegradable kraft bag designed for erosion control applications.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Offset the next row by about half or a third of the length of the concrete bag while stacking it on top of the first row.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Set it back about a half to a quarter inch so the wall will lean gently into the hill.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
There is no mixing or forming required simply stack the bags as described in the usage instructions.
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