Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
How to concrete sack retaining wall.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Hi all i have a small pond where one bank has started collapsing and i need to build a retaining wall.
Block retaining walls are generally the same as freestanding block walls but with a few important differences.
I plan to mostly drain the pond to do the work there is a stream that i will have to continuously pump past the pond during the project.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Without a pressure relief system the weight of the water in the soil would crack or even buckle the wall.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Looking at different options the idea of a retaining wall made from.
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Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
However an enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
A retaining wall must provide a way to release the water that builds up in the slope behind it.