A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Concrete bag retaining wall instructions.
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.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
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.
That s right the idea is that.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
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.
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Materials tools and site.
How to build a concrete wall prep work.
This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
We put a stop to our erosion problem with just a few concrete bags.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.