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.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
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.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
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Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Driven into the bags.
That s right the idea is that.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
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.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Concrete bag retaining wall.