Browse Forums DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair Re: Advice - urgent repair for timber retaining wall 3Oct 23, 2014 7:26 am How to embed a photo on this site... viewtopic.php?f=1&t=58434&start=20 About fourteen posts down This is for uploading a photo to photobucket. Other file hosting sites are similar. (Note: You wont see the image until you post your message/topic) It has to be on a picture sharing website like photobucket or imgur and then you pop in the link between [img]...[/img] These are "baby" steps but once you've done it a few times it's a lot easier than it looks. A few clicks of the mouse is all it takes. And yes I agree with JB1. A bit of hard yakka and it'll be relatively easy to replace. Stewie Re: Advice - urgent repair for timber retaining wall 4Oct 24, 2014 10:06 am fishgirl A couple of the sleepers on our timber retaining wall have broken. The trouble is all the landscaping guys that came to give a quote suggested replacing the entire 24m wall which is in good nick and is going to cost approx $8000 -$9000. ha ha they always do that. Make a mountain out of a molehill and try to cash in. Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 18285 looks ok to me, round logs retaining walls are better than sleeper walls, more even preservative treatment and stronger since they include the whole tree and not just part… 1 2605 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6917 |