Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
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.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
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Concrete bag retaining wall.
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.
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.
That s right the idea is that.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.