Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Do I need a retaining wall? 4Jul 04, 2009 11:58 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Do I need a retaining wall? 11Jul 06, 2009 9:09 am Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Re: Do I need a retaining wall? 12Jul 06, 2009 10:41 am billdsl like the others have suggested, if its a metre or so you will need engineering but you could do 2 smaller walls and use the top as a garden, or put gravel across with some plants or pots to make it look nice, or have the top as a path and the middle as a small garden Yeah, this is what I'm thinking: Have the top-most level be about 1m wide, to create a gravel path all the way around the house. Then have a 0.5m - 1m wide 2nd level which will have plants and things. Then the bottom/lowest level would be about 2.5m-3m wide, which includes the easement of 2m. So, that bit would be grass/lawn type stuff for the dogs. Re: Do I need a retaining wall? 13Jul 06, 2009 3:26 pm that would work and be quite easy to put into place, and no need for engineering either all round win Blog - http://snakedr.blogspot.com/ Build Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=12084&p=307406#p307406 Status - PCI 15/10. Things nearly done. Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5670 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16336 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 7049 |