Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
Using concrete bags for 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.
These systems are easy to install durable reasonably priced and available in a variety of colors and textures.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
My cousin has read about a process of taking unopened bags of concrete layered like bricks to make a.
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.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
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I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Mar 30 2013 just stack up bags on concrete leave them as is through a few big rains ir thoroughly soak a few times and then tear off paper voila.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Driven into the bags.
That s right the idea is that.
A concrete block retaining wall is the perfect solution to control erosion to eliminate a hard to mow slope to add a planting bed or to level an ideal patio area.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
A verysimple concrete bag retaining wall with no work.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.