We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
Concrete bag retaining wall instructions.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
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Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
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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.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
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.
The wall we built was a weekend long project and an exhausting one at that.
We put a stop to our erosion problem with just a few concrete bags.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
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.
Materials tools and site.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.