A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Concrete bag wall crumbling.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Driven into the bags.
Buildings especially older ones tend to develop cracks here and there the basement walls crumbling and the driveway all falling apart.
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Water that gets into cracks can cause them to grow and the faces of concrete walls can have the cement binder leached out over many years leaving them weak.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
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.
The 2020 update is now up today june 15 2020 a 5 5 minute video update about my concrete bag retaining wall it s a real nail biter.
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.
Crumbling basement walls solution hard cracks and chips spalling concrete walls vertical cracks in retaining walls.
2 i have tested several types of bags.
Next you want to mix up a batch of mortar and to do so you can purchase premixed in a bag or mix your own by using 1.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
1 i have been doing these walls for 30 years.
And if a wall is chipping or crumbling it s fair to say the bag was taken off way to early.
My cousin has read about a process of taking unopened bags of concrete layered like bricks to make a.
3 that video above with the guy putting steel in the bags is my video.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
4 i can disprove your theory that the concrete will not set up correct due to water ratios.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
All which needs immediate attention.