Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Jan 31, 2011 8:13 pm Hi there all, just wondering if you can comment on the following quotes: 1.7m high, 12.5m long retaining wall - $3540 for steel uprights only, or $6800 with rendered cement slabs installed. 18m wide retaining wall, starting out on one side with .9m high, reducing to .2 (in the middle) then growing to .7 at the other end (its half retaining a cut, half retaining a fill) - $2880 seem reasonable ? Why are priates scary ? Because they yaargh.. Re: Retaining wall quote 2May 01, 2011 8:15 pm Cap'n that sounds reasonable if it is what I think. Is it I beams with prefabricated cement panels lifted in? to be rendered over? That is what I am looking at doing. Are you happy with job, Do you have photo's? Can you PM me the contractor details, or email warren.tuck@optusnet.com.au. Slab poured 21/04/2011 Frame finished 27/05/2011 Moved in 07/11/2011 Re: Retaining wall quote 3May 02, 2011 10:13 am Sounds about right. 1.7m is quite high and requires bigger steel than "normal" I just paid $8855 for our wall. it is Gal steel posts with treated pine sleepers at 1200mm center as per engineers design at 1.2m height. It worked out to be $350+GST per M2(385m2 including.) So effectively each meter of length cost us $462 When you say steel uprights only, does that include the drainage required behind the wall also? Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5179 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16138 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 6901 |