Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Aug 01, 2009 8:24 pm Built in now city 2009, now moving to the country to embark on another build. Check out our previous blog http://ourpalazzo.blogspot.com/ Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 3Aug 02, 2009 7:15 am Built in now city 2009, now moving to the country to embark on another build. Check out our previous blog http://ourpalazzo.blogspot.com/ Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 5Aug 02, 2009 8:57 am Built in now city 2009, now moving to the country to embark on another build. Check out our previous blog http://ourpalazzo.blogspot.com/ Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 7Aug 02, 2009 12:05 pm This is exactly what we have. Raised beds all round. I left a gap the width of a trenching shovel between the wall and the fence. This is so over the years I can easily clean out fallen plant material which may potentially contribute to rusting the fence. I have seen on here some board put up against the fence but not sure on the long term effects. The gap between the wall and the fence also means I have been able to lay garden light wires and irrigation pipe down the back of the wall where it can't be seen My wall is made from one course along the back of reconstituted limestone blocks onto the edge of the limestone retaining wall bordering the properties. The fence is set into the retaining wall. Here in WA these blocks are pretty much the standard hardscaping material. Very cheap and easy to use. I have started seeing a rammed earth look reconstituted block in Landscape supply outlets. Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 8Aug 02, 2009 1:57 pm well you're in luck, mates got a small backyard 50sqm and we have just completed landscaping it! we cut 80mm down off the fill and use that in the plantabox dumped 9ton ($180) paving sand, and wackapacked it down got 'seconds' retaining wall blocks (300 of them) and used that to make the box, half price used cut blueboard ($10 a sheet) and steel tri posts (about $5) in the ground along the fenceline, to lift the fill from the colorbond fence (take the load off it) pictures of 'blueboard' http://www.allwaysfencing.com.au/galler ... Screen.jpg its fibre cement board and designed to be used in wet/moist areas; avail at any hardware store. ill get round to getting pictures sometime! -Nathan 2nd-Fix | Blog Building with Desyn Homes previously with the insolvent [url=https://www.facebook.com/7NewsAdelaide/videos/1162546323776021/]Endeavour Homes[/url] Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 9Aug 02, 2009 3:21 pm Villaboard is used in wet areas - not blueboard. Blueboard is used for exterior lining of walls. Its not designed for the constant damp associated with a garden bed and will deteriorate. I've seen gardens done this way with fibro between the soil and fence. Colorbond fences are not designed to have weight of that nature placed on one side. YOou should be looking along the lines of methods Fu outlined. Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 10Nov 19, 2012 10:19 am Any one figure this out? Anypics? Any failures? Looking at doing this but have the same problem with colourbond fence Forrester 43sq We have our keys (3/6/11) Now it's time to decorate (that's the fun part.lol) https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37598 Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 11Nov 19, 2012 12:15 pm Hiya. We had the same concerns, as we are along the back wall of a suburb, but the house to the right is a level higher than us (small retaining walls separates the blocks) and the block next to us is one lower, etc. The back wall is crooked, so we wanted to put a small retaining wall along the back wall to basically square off the backyard. Our little retaining wall had a trench of about 20cm dug, cement poured, etc to bring it to normal height level. Then we used blocks 500 long x 245 high x 165 wide. However, when we got to the fence on the other side, we did the following (hope the diagram helps). The little leftover bit in the corner where the wall stops is now a small area of paving. This way we avoided having the wall butted up against the fence. Re: Raised garden bed against colorbond fence- help! 12Nov 25, 2012 7:22 am Rudolf1980 Any one figure this out? Anypics? Any failures? Looking at doing this but have the same problem with colourbond fence Hey Rudolf, We have to do the same thing.. 18m retaining wall but we have those cutouts in the fence for corner houses. So we really have to make 3 more retaining walls (3 sections of cutouts). I was going to get some sleepers and star pickets between the fence and the new garden beds. I will hopefully have it all finished by mid - December and can post pics DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair I'm in WA and our sandy soils make drainage a bit easier but this is what I'd be doing. Dig down to your footings and let the wall dry out. Clean it all well by brushing… 1 5242 6 4401 Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. 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