After a full week of rains we drive out to the mobile home site to see if the hill had slipped further and if the concrete bag wall had held up.
Concrete bag retaining wall instructions.
We put a stop to our erosion problem with just a few concrete bags.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
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We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
It took a day to rip out the old collapsing retaining wall to dig farther into the hill to provide room for the backfill gravel and to help unload materials.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
How to build a concrete wall prep work.
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.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Materials tools and site.
This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.