Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Make a concrete bag wall.
2 i have tested several types of bags.
And if a wall is chipping or crumbling it s fair to say the bag was taken off way to early.
And might be found for free in you local community.
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.
All yields are approximate and do not allow for uneven application thickness waste etc.
3 that video above with the guy putting steel in the bags is my video.
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.
An enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
1 i have been doing these walls for 30 years.
How to build concrete sack walls.
The calculator will indicate the number of 80 lb.
Construction step 1 level the area you intend to build the wall around eyeballing it and digging out with the shovel.
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.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
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.
This can be a very rough process as the concrete.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.