Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Concrete bag retaining wall instructions.
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.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
We put a stop to our erosion problem with just a few concrete bags.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Materials tools and site.
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How to build a concrete wall prep work.
The wall we built was a weekend long project and an exhausting one at that.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
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.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.