Leave the concrete in the bag stack like legos wet with a hose core77 building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Unopened concrete bag wall.
The bags will set.
Once the bags are laid you wet everything down thoroughly with a hose saturating all of the bags.
The paper slowly comes off and should be gone in 6 months.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
There are other important steps in this process such as proper backfill and drainage to remove water from behind the wall.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
Make a retaining wall using quickcrete bags unopened and stacked like bricks.
That s right the idea is that you don t open the packaging.
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A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Set it back about a half to a quarter inch so the wall will lean gently into the hill.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Wet the bags daily for a couple of days.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Step 7 fill the trench between the dirt and the concrete wall with some gravel.
Depending on the height of the dam wall and the capacity of the reservoir it may be desirable to leave channels for water to runoff between bags in the top tier.
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2 feet is the max height for those blocks and if built on a proper base and with the first course level you can backfill the wall up to 2 feet tall.
Concrete bag retaining wall pt 2.
Driven into the bags.
For a low wall you can use the small concrete blocks that kms linked to.