Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Retaining Wall Batter 4Jan 02, 2009 5:25 pm Da Vinci Outdoor Living Architectural landscaping http://www.davincioutdoor.com Re: Retaining Wall Batter 8Jan 04, 2009 6:02 pm Da Vinci Outdoor Living Architectural landscaping http://www.davincioutdoor.com Re: Retaining Wall Batter 9Jan 05, 2009 8:40 am Thanks for the reply Davinci.
davinci scoria or 7mm beam should be min 200mm but as you said whats done is done but as long as your soil isnt highly reactive then you should be ok I used 200mm of 20mm recycled concrete behind the wall....I didn't even think of using scoria (never heard of it before) behind the wall. Do you think the recycled concrete will be ok? I have read the term "highly reactive soil" many times now....how do I determine if I have highly reactive soils or not??? I have ascertained that it is related to the amount the soil swells when wet and shrinks when dry but how do you identify such soil?? I know most of what I am holding back is old building rubble and a very sandy soil however at the very bottom of the wall on the 1600mm high section there is a band of the original soil about 400mm in height that is a firmer tan road base type of soil with some richer dark garden top soil ontop then rubble and sandy soil makes up the rest to finished ground level. Would the road base be considered reactive?? I have included a photo showing the soil bands. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5142 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16105 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 |