Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
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So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Friends old and new show up and help us put up the first section of our retaining wall.
We re using a dry bag method stacking in courses and stabilizing wit.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
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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Driven into the bags.
Right now when i water the lawn it all runs down the slope into the street.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Dec 6 2016 explore greg carpenter s board cement bag retaining wall on pinterest.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.