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Culvert concrete bag retaining wall.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Thoroughly sprinkle and tamp each layer of bags.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Building a cement bag retaining wall around a culvert by pouring dry concrete mix in small lunch bags and stacking them like bricks.
Perforating the bags with a pitchfork or metal rake will speed saturation and initial set.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Stack succeeding tiers in an interlocking fashion or bond pattern.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways above is not a trivial matter.
We put a stop to our erosion problem with just a few concrete bags.
Culvert bricking with cement bags.
That s right the idea is that you don t open the packaging.
This will keep our culverts and driveway all intact while giving it a cool look.
Offset the next row by about half or a third of the length of the concrete bag while stacking it on top of the first row.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Step 7 fill the trench between the dirt and the concrete wall with some gravel.
Lay the first tier of bags for the dam or bulkhead wall by butting the bags together end to end.
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Set it back about a half to a quarter inch so the wall will lean gently into the hill.
Building a cement bag retaining wall around a culvert by pouring dry concrete mix in small lunch bags and stacking them like bricks.
After a full week of rains we drive out to the mobile home site to see if the hill had slipped further and if the concrete bag wall had held up.
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