Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Using concrete bags for retaining wall.
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Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
That s right the idea is that.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Driven into the bags.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
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.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
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.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
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 verysimple concrete bag retaining wall with no work.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.