Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: What type of retaining wall? 4Dec 19, 2010 8:17 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: What type of retaining wall? 5Dec 19, 2010 8:51 pm Cheers, John and Marilyn Our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=39708&start=0 Retaining wall for fill side 3/12/10 Cut and fill 6/12/10 Screw Piers 17/12/10 Rear retaining wall 22/12/10 Under slab plumbing and electrics 20/1/11 Formwork and slab 29/1/11 Frames 01/02 Roof tiling 14/02 Doors,plumb, elect rough in 16 -21/02 Bricks 23/02 Plastering start 2/03 Re: What type of retaining wall? 6Dec 19, 2010 10:51 pm Planned Landscape Constructions http://www.plannedlandscape.com.au Find us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 9907611509 Re: What type of retaining wall? 17Feb 10, 2011 12:52 pm If I leave hollow and just use liquid nails (or nothing) are they really strong? I get lots of run off that would be going towards the wall, but I plan to install good drainage. This would place lots of presure on the wall, and I don't really want the bricks to start moving or falling over after a few years! Re: What type of retaining wall? 18Feb 10, 2011 3:43 pm SydneyWebsites If I leave hollow and just use liquid nails (or nothing) are they really strong? I get lots of run off that would be going towards the wall, but I plan to install good drainage. This would place lots of presure on the wall, and I don't really want the bricks to start moving or falling over after a few years! A standard 390mm Tasman block like the ones I have used weigh in excess of 15kg each and are designed to be core filled with aggregate which makes them even heavier. My wall has not moved 1 mm from the time it has been constructed and its got just under 1 metre of drainage grave and fill behind it. My wall caps are just sitting on top and are not fixed in place with any type of glue or liquid nails. Effective drainage is the key to any retaining wall. Most walls fail due to the backfill swelling when it gets wet because the drainage is not done correctly. Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5108 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16048 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 6842 |