Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Driven into the bags.
That s right the idea is that.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
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