March 29, 20206 yr @redtop did you ever get this sorted? I need to replace a 2.4m high 7m long wall, holding back just soil of sloping garden. Thinking of just doing reinforced concrete block buy trying to get a SE in rural Wales is proving difficult.
March 29, 20206 yr did it with gabions, took ages but was very cheap, 10 3/4 tonne bags of quarry waste at 20 quid a bag. chucked a few blocks in each basket as well and got enough facing quality stone from the quarry waste to face about 1 1/2 gabions per bag. rear gabion wall is 2M high but only 0.5M deep to reduce digging into rock, had to use vertical steels in concrete to make them more stable. All works fine; cheap but slow and hard work.
April 26, 20215 yr On 30/07/2019 at 12:30, Declan52 said: What is the wall holding back??? I used this type of dry walling system on mine. https://professional.ag.uk.com/products/retaining-walls/anchor-diamond It can go to 3m high and requires no concrete base and it's a DIY job. The blocks are about 20kg each so it's heavy work but definitely doable. What sort of money is in that per m2?
April 27, 20215 yr 8 hours ago, eandg said: What sort of money is in that per m2? Sorry I can't really remember as it was a good 6 years ago. As I had bought my lightweight blocks for my house from them I was able to get a good deal. With not needing any concrete base or plastering and being a DIY task it must have worked out much cheaper than any other option to hold back my driveway or I wouldn't have used it.
November 12, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, scottishjohn said: anyone got a simple calcultor for working out a retaining wall So many variables with retaining walls I can’t see there being anything straight forward to use
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