The wall we built was a weekend long project and an exhausting one at that.
Concrete bag retaining wall instructions.
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.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Materials tools and site.
How to build a concrete wall prep work.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
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So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
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.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.