Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Use of concrete bags as retaining walls.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways above is not a trivial matter.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Leave the concrete in the bag stack like legos wet with a hose core77 building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Use a square finishing trowel held at a 45 degree angle and work from the bottom of the wall to the top covering the entire surface of the wall.
Step 7 fill the trench between the dirt and the concrete wall with some gravel.
That s right the idea is that you don t open the packaging.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
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.
Concrete bags for a retaining wall saw an article in this old house magazine.
These systems are easy to install durable reasonably priced and available in a variety of colors and textures.
2 feet is the max height for those blocks and if built on a proper base and with the first course level you can backfill the wall up to 2 feet tall.
Step 9 cure the entire surface with a fine water mist.
A big rainstorm came through blue spring farm last week.
For a low wall you can use the small concrete blocks that kms linked to.
Place bags wet for 5 days straight and when cured peal off the paper solid wall will be doing around the huge oak tree at edge of back yard then plant lots of giant elephant ears.
Offset the next row by about half or a third of the length of the concrete bag while stacking it on top of the first row.
Video of the day.
This article shows you how to install one in a weekend.
Quikrete 5000 high strength concrete mix if footing is required.
Set it back about a half to a quarter inch so the wall will lean gently into the hill.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
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.
We finally finished out the other side of the culverts by installing the concrete bag wall that was.