Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Concrete bag wall crumbling.
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.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
4 i can disprove your theory that the concrete will not set up correct due to water ratios.
Jump to the step by step guides for fixing.
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.
How to repair the surface of a concrete wall to repair crumbling.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Driven into the bags.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
Depending on the height of the dam wall and the capacity of the reservoir it may be desirable to leave channels for water to runoff between bags in the top tier.
My cousin has read about a process of taking unopened bags of concrete layered like bricks to make a.
1 i have been doing these walls for 30 years.
3 that video above with the guy putting steel in the bags is my video.
And if a wall is chipping or crumbling it s fair to say the bag was taken off way to early.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
All which needs immediate attention.
Next you want to mix up a batch of mortar and to do so you can purchase premixed in a bag or mix your own by using 1.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
2 i have tested several types of bags.
Water that gets into cracks can cause them to grow and the faces of concrete walls can have the cement binder leached out over many years leaving them weak.