Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Show me your retaining walls! 121Dec 18, 2010 3:29 pm Thank you Lex.
My wife and I did the design and found a landscaper that would do the brick fence at the front as well. We had to removed 140m2 x 100mm of clay plus digging trenches which was impossible for me to DIY (The landscaper used 2 Kanga + mini digger). There were 1 surface drain inplace already when we bought the house, but the problem is the drain has no fall so the water just sits there and drains really slow. The plan was to start collecting water from the retaining wall then connecting to the surface drain then downpipe and to the street. Re: Show me your retaining walls! 124Jan 22, 2011 12:17 am wombat Hi all Doing a Besser Block wall, 5 high in places, majority 4 http://gallery.me.com/danny.lee7/100129 Piccies of wall at the end. Have an other 110 blocks to lay and then done. Will cap n render after house built. Footings Cost $2150 (dig 300mm wide x 400m deep trench, steel, concrete, reinforced uprights) 360 Besser Blocks @ $1.50 each (seconds that need mortar chipping off) $540 Sand, Cement, Lime, Gravel (2 tonne), half blocks, agi pipe (90mm - 2 x 20m with sock) $500 So far, approx $3190 PLUS blood, sweat and tears for around 36m of wall min 800mm high. Costs to add Cement fill every few vertical rows Render Capping maybe $4k all up. Approx $111 per metre. Pretty chuffed, more so because I got to hang out woth my Dad (73yr old retired plasterer) and I've enver done anything like this before So this is what it has costed you so far with you doing everything yourself? How much do you think you're saving by doing it all yourself (if this is the case)? Re: Show me your retaining walls! 125Jan 22, 2011 4:23 pm Hi I need to put 30m retention wall on the side of our block, I am going with Besser block finish, similar like wombat’s http://gallery.me.com/danny.lee7/100129 Do I need to put expansion joint every 6meters? Thanks Re: Show me your retaining walls! 126Jan 22, 2011 4:44 pm Quote: Why is everybody worried about drainage, I didnt even install any. Oh, that's right you are not in WA.... If you don't put drainage behind a wall after rain the load on the wall can increase by 50% or more. Thats why one of the things you see during heavy rain in steep areas is landslips. The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Hi , I'm currently going through this now within the Whitehorse council which has a similar set of restrictions. We're having to make compromises with our floor plan due… 3 30667 Render your bathroom walls, two opinions versus the one, makes you wonder. 3 6035 The spacing of the studs looks pretty large especially for a load bearing wall. 3 11104 |