Driven into the bags.
Retaining wall made with concrete bags.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
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Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Hi all i have a small pond where one bank has started collapsing and i need to build a 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.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
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.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
My cousin has read about a process of taking unopened bags of concrete layered like bricks to make a.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
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I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
I plan to mostly drain the pond to do the work there is a stream that i will have to continuously pump past the pond during the project.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Looking at different options the idea of a retaining wall made from.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.