There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Sacks of concrete retaining wall.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Foundation the retaining wall will need to have some form of foundation built to give it a solid base.
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.
That s right the idea is that.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
Multiply the width and height of your retaining wall by 12 to give the total cubic feet of backfill gravel that will need to be ordered.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Additional retaining wall cost factors.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
4 6 per 0 5 cubic foot bag.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.