Browse Forums DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair 1 Oct 22, 2014 7:08 pm 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. We don't have that kind of money at the moment and I was looking for advice to repair just that section of the wall. Happy for the solution to just last for the next 2-3 years. Can we do this by ourselves or can a handyman do it. All help & advice appreciated. I have photos but can't figure out how to attach them! Re: Advice - urgent repair for timber retaining wall 2Oct 23, 2014 12:45 am Hard to tell without photos. But I'd assume you'll dig out the dirt behind the broken ones and replace the sleepers. Treated pine sleepers are dead cheap. May cost you under $50 to fix. The hardest part will be digging out the soil behind the sleepers. 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 15659 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 2596 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 6889 |