Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
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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.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
That s right the idea is that.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
Driven into the bags.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
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.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.