There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Concrete bag retaining wall with rebar.
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.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
This calculator assumes that you are using 20 foot long lengths of rebar.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
As a minimum 4 rebar 1 2 inch is spaced vertically at 36 inches on center continued to within 8 inches of the top of the wall placed on the tension side the inside face of the wall.
Pouring a concrete retaining wall is not that difficult and this easy to follow how to guide will show you just what to do.
Rebar is placed horizontally and vertically in the wall in a grid pattern.
Insert rebar in the footing when you pour it.
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.
Expect to spend 20 36 hours building a 3x10 foot concrete block retaining wall.
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As the last step fill the cores around the rebar with mortar from the bottom to top.
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.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Calculate the amount of rebar needed for reinforcing a wall.
If your wall is over 40 feet long it will add 2x the amount of overlap required.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
If your wall is over 20 feet long it will add the amount of overlap required.