Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Mar 15, 2015 9:47 pm Hi, I just cut my land down 1 meter at the back right corner of my lot and now need a retaining wall. Im courious to know if anyone has istalled a retaining wall similar to the wall in the picture. I need to install a wall 18 meters across the back of my lot at a max height of 1 meter, sloping down to 200mm. The second right angle wall is the same height and slopes across 28 meters and again down to 200m. Im seeking a rough idea how much I can expect to pay. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: How much was your retaining wall? 2Mar 16, 2015 9:23 am I'm doing something similar but with concrete sleepers. Personally I wouldn't use wood. The concrete sleepers are about $50 each which is similar to good hardwood and I'm installing it myself. Re: How much was your retaining wall? 3Mar 16, 2015 7:50 pm We did exactly in pic, steel H and C channel, 75mm treated pine sleepers approx 18m long started at 1.2m and went to about 400mm. From start to finish including getting engineered and drawn, machinery and supplies approx 3.5k. And we did most it ourselves. The biggest cost was the last thing we got a bobcat it to clean up the area from the excess dirt and also back filled with the aggregate. Re: How much was your retaining wall? 4Mar 16, 2015 8:26 pm We did ours approx 40m worth. Highest point 600mm. Used treated pine with galvanized H beams & C channel. We paid someone to do the whole lot start to finish. 2 men done in approx 2 full days. The price included removal of our existing retailing wall. Total cost $4000 ( we are in Vic) Re: How much was your retaining wall? 5Mar 16, 2015 9:09 pm Thanks for replying Nic and Shell. Can you tell me what a C channel is? Re: How much was your retaining wall? 6Mar 16, 2015 9:14 pm JJ305 We did ours approx 40m worth. Highest point 600mm. Used treated pine with galvanized H beams & C channel. We paid someone to do the whole lot start to finish. 2 men done in approx 2 full days. The price included removal of our existing retailing wall. Total cost $4000 ( we are in Vic) Thats a great price. I should have 4 quotes by weeks end. One landscaper is trying to sell me concrete sleepers. I know they stand the test of time but im on a budget. I thinking of using hard wood and in ten years when the wood starts to fail, I would have saved enough for concrete. I guess thats the great thing about using H posts, you can swap out the old for new. Re: How much was your retaining wall? 7Mar 17, 2015 5:12 pm Jese Norriss Thanks for replying Nic and Shell. Can you tell me what a C channel is? C channel is the same as the H Channel, but in the shape of a C obviously but used for the ends to cap it off. Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5141 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 |