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Building concrete bag retaining wall.
An enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
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There is still a lot of work in building a segmented retaining wall properly but it can be done by a homeowner.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
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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.
How to build concrete sack walls.
Construction step 1 level the area you intend to build the wall around eyeballing it and digging out with the shovel.
If the wall is only around 2 3 feet tall there are many block options that can be used and will weigh around 40 pounds at most per block.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.