How to build a concrete wall prep work.
Concrete bag retaining wall instructions.
That s right the idea is that.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
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.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
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The wall we built was a weekend long project and an exhausting one at that.
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.
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.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
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.
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.