If the form is constructed incorrectly the concrete can blow out the form breaking it apart and creating an enormous mess while wasting much of your money.
Concrete retaining wall form.
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Then pour your concrete inside the form using a chute or hose attached to the mixer.
Our forms packages are tailored to your needs.
Constructed correctly a form for a homemade wall will not only retain the concrete but it can be reused to form other walls you may be planning on.
To form a concrete wall first set up plywood boards on either side of your concrete footer and attach them together with wire.
For example if you are pouring a retaining wall that will be 12 inches thick and will use wooden planks that are 1 1 2 inches thick for your forms you ll need to space the stakes about 15 inches apart 12 inches for the retaining wall plus two pieces of 1 1 2 inch thick wooden board.
To make the wall as strong as possible pour the concrete in layers no higher than 20 inches working from 1 end of the wall to the.
In this photo increte contractors installed a poured in place decorative concrete wall system called stone crete that creates deep relief stone walls with a variety of available textures and colors.
Once your concrete footing that will.
Stone crete is used for sound barrier walls retaining walls subdivision entry walls or wherever.