For example if the lower wall is three feet.
Building a garden retaining wall.
Soil is very heavy weighing over one tonne per cubic metre so any walls built to retain a part of your garden needs to be as strong as possible.
Keeping garden retaining walls attractive at the same time as building them in the strongest way is not difficult and that is what this project is about.
Brush off the previous course to clean off any debris.
Lay stones 1 and 3 out in their pattern.
Build one of these diy garden retaining walls and change the whole dynamic of your yard.
Here are three key principles in building any solid retaining wall.
Prepare the foundation step 1.
Building retaining walls in the garden is a very popular subject on diy doctor.
This lets the walls lean and push against the fill.
To bury the first row.
When building a tiered set of retaining walls position the higher wall behind the lower wall at twice the distance as the height of the lower wall.
Dig for the first row of block.
Bury the bottom course or courses of the retaining wall one tenth the height of the wall to prevent the soil behind from pushing the bottom out.
Retaining walls hold back soil to allow a level planting area in a space that normally would have poor soil drainage and access.
For row one knock off the flanges with a hammer and chisel so the.
So banish the idea that only ground cover plants can grow on your slope.
Lay stone 2 on top of 1 and 3 drawing lines on 1 and 3 where stone 2 overlaps them.
Adjust for sloping ground.
In practice most stützmauer art are made from drywall and have been an important aspect of european homes in this form since time immemorial.
Repeat placing stone 4 on top of stones 3 and 5.
Step back the blocks rocks or timbers to get gravity working in your favor.
With the layout marked you can begin digging the trench.
A retaining wall in the garden can be built in granite gneiss sandstone and other different materials.
Cut stones 1 and 3 along those lines.
Drywall is made of stones such as limestone which are a cheaper alternative to stone.