2 i have tested several types of bags.
Concrete bag walls.
A big rainstorm came through blue spring farm last week.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
4 i can disprove your theory that the concrete will not set up correct due to water ratios.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
I ve seen some walls built with used chunks of concrete sidewalk pieces to me they would be leaps and bounds better looking than the bag route.
We finally finished out the other side of the culverts by installing the concrete bag wall that was.
Concrete mix can be used for building or repairing foundation walls sidewalks curbs steps and ramps and for setting posts.
The calculator will indicate the number of 80 lb bags of quikrete base coat stucco and finish coat stucco you will need to construct your stucco wall using a traditional 3 coat or 2 coat application process.
Concrete mix consists of a uniformly blended properly proportioned mixture of gravel sand and portland cement.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
Set it back about a half to a quarter inch so the wall will lean gently into the hill.
1 i have been doing these walls for 30 years.
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.
Add 5 10 additional material to account for settling spillage and waste.
This mix designed for pouring concrete 2 in.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
And might be found for free in you local community.
Offset the next row by about half or a third of the length of the concrete bag while stacking it on top of the first row.
3 that video above with the guy putting steel in the bags is my video.
And if a wall is chipping or crumbling it s fair to say the bag was taken off way to early.
2 this will ensure you can complete your project in a single pour without needing to get more concrete to complete the project if you re short.
Driven into the bags.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
On average it will take 90 40lb bags 60 60lb bags or 45 80lb bags to fill one cubic yard of concrete.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.