Measure and calculate the area you ll be covering with the retaining wall.
Concrete cement bag retaining wall.
How to build concrete sack walls step 1.
Level the area you intend to build the wall around eyeballing it and digging out with the shovel.
Lay the first level of concrete bags out where the wall will be built up.
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Stack the second level of concrete.
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Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
If you are leveling a very large.
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They look like sandbags but are actually hessian bags filled with wet concrete and pinned together with steel rods making a good solid retaining wall.
Visit the hardware store and examine the pallets of.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
Concrete runs about 4 bucks a bag and at height of 3 or so would require a good number to provide 3 feet of wall.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways above is not a trivial matter.
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Level the ground where you want to build your retaining wall with your shovel.