That s right the idea is that.
Concrete bag 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.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
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.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
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.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
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As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Driven into the bags.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Concrete bag 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.