Browse Forums Building A New House Re: show me your retaining wall 61Aug 15, 2012 7:44 pm We had concrete footings poured for our two retaining walls today, which will then be bricked. I will take pics when I can. I had no idea how retaining walls were constructed, and I guess there are all sorts of different ways too. SunshineT's Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34585 Designs start: 4/12/09 DA: 5/7/11 Demo: 22/12/11 Slab: 24/2/12 Keys: 31/8/12 Re: show me your retaining wall 63Jun 26, 2014 8:37 pm jessie87 Here is our retaining wall Wow, that looks great! BLOG: http://www.ourphoenix38.blogspot.com.au H1 THREAD: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=70454 Re: show me your retaining wall 64Jan 02, 2016 9:20 pm Happy new year everyone! We need to get a 20 meter x 60cm retaining wall for a garden. Considering a stone retaining wall (sandstone or bluestone). I am on clay ground in Canberra. Can anyone tell me what footings I will require? I want to do it right and do it once... Thanks in advance. Building is both exciting and stressful Re: show me your retaining wall 65Jan 03, 2016 8:48 am Here's 55m (almost) of my steel post and concrete sleeper retaining wall. This front and side of the block (corner block), tiers the front yard for gardens and lawn and surrounds the pool. This part owes me about $24k. I had the posts concreted in and I've done the rest. There's another 30 odd metres to go (20 on the back boundary and another 10 on the left hand side of the driveway. This should cost another $7k after splitting the back wall with the neighbour. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: show me your retaining wall 67May 31, 2016 9:13 am Yes, the ones that have had decent applications of waterproofing on them. Too often the builders or owners skimp on this and as a result water gets absorbed by the blocks after a while resulting in dicolouration. Sometimes also people plant gardens behind the walls close to the top of the wall height and if they add mulch sometimes the tannin from this can cause ugly brown marks. Stewie 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 16142 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 6903 |