1 i have been doing these walls for 30 years.
Make a concrete bag wall.
Bags of quikrete veneer stone mortar you will need to construct your wall including the scratch coat bond coat and jointing mortar application.
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All yields are approximate and do not allow for uneven application thickness waste etc.
The calculator will indicate the number of 80 lb.
I ve seen some walls built with used chunks of concrete sidewalk pieces to me they would be leaps and bounds better looking than the bag route.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
An enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
How to build concrete sack walls.
And might be found for free in you local community.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
4 i can disprove your theory that the concrete will not set up correct due to water ratios.
The 2020 update is now up today june 15 2020 a 5 5 minute video update about my concrete bag retaining wall it s a real nail biter.
This can be a very rough process as the concrete.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
And if a wall is chipping or crumbling it s fair to say the bag was taken off way to early.
Concrete runs about 4 bucks a bag and at height of 3 or so would require a good number to provide 3 feet of wall.