This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
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.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
We put a stop to our erosion problem with just a few concrete bags.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
How to build a concrete wall prep work.
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.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
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.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
That s right the idea is that.
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.
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.