Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
Sacks of concrete retaining wall.
A verysimple concrete bag retaining wall with no work.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
However an enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
4 6 per 0 5 cubic foot bag.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
That s right the idea is that.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
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I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Multiply the width and height of your retaining wall by 12 to give the total cubic feet of backfill gravel that will need to be ordered.
Foundation the retaining wall will need to have some form of foundation built to give it a solid base.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Mar 30 2013 just stack up bags on concrete leave them as is through a few big rains ir thoroughly soak a few times and then tear off paper voila.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.