Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Sep 16, 2013 8:24 pm (And so is the builder! ) I won't see this wall from my house, it will be propping up the backyard and back fence, which slopes from front to back (and side to side). It then faces a gov't school but is essentially out of sight behind buildings. I don't need advice on seeing the council or engineers either, that's all under control, but thanks anyway! I have an extremely limited budget, but can collect free/cheap materials to repurpose. Lets call the wall 1500 x .900 high, and aiming for as close to vertical as possible. I am after some input for cheap, unusual options to construct from, I have plenty of time on my hands lately! (The fence will be typical post/rail/paling) I do have the 1.6M galvanized sheeting from the original fence, and am wondering if this could easily be utilized as the wall, like these... http://www.cajunmarineconstruction.com/ ... Walls.html but then I also got looking at gabion stone baskets and wondered if i could come up with a cheaper alternative for this purpose, I have plenty of rock and rubble from pulling up garden paths, which lead me to wondering about using 44 gallon drums along the boundary, filled with rocks, bricks and concrete, topped off with gravel, and topsoil, scalloped top on the property side to sit well below ground level (usual ag-pipe/drainage behind of course) I could protrude onto the school a little, running the drums centre-line along the boundary, with posts for fence also mounted in these? Obviously these drums are taller than I need, but I could easily dig the trench to hold them or cut them down accordingly, how long do these drums take to rust through anyway? What other ideas do people have for a cheap, effective wall material where aesthetics aren't at all important? 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 3308 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 3721 at most it will have a short lintel which could be moved up just below the ceiling or even above. Above means you need to patch the cornice and might need to deal with… 2 57689 |