As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Concrete bag walls.
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.
A big rainstorm came through blue spring farm last week.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
2 i have tested several types of bags.
4 i can disprove your theory that the concrete will not set up correct due to water ratios.
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.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
And if a wall is chipping or crumbling it s fair to say the bag was taken off way to early.
Concrete mix consists of a uniformly blended properly proportioned mixture of gravel sand and portland cement.
On average it will take 90 40lb bags 60 60lb bags or 45 80lb bags to fill one cubic yard of concrete.
3 that video above with the guy putting steel in the bags is my video.
And might be found for free in you local community.
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 can be used for building or repairing foundation walls sidewalks curbs steps and ramps and for setting posts.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
1 i have been doing these walls for 30 years.
Concrete runs about 4 bucks a bag and at height of 3 or so would require a good number to provide 3 feet of wall.
All yields are approximate and do not allow for uneven application thickness waste etc.
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.
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.
Set it back about a half to a quarter inch so the wall will lean gently into the hill.