Wednesday 13 July 2011

One Retaining Wall Please!!!

The retaining wall finished, but i still need to tidy up!
The neighbour, who I get along with really well is putting a driveway up the side of his property right on our boundary. The problem is the earth bank was near vertical and had no retaining wall. As he would be driving on it I wanted it retained. The neighbour being the nice bloke he is, offered to pay for the steel posts. So here's the result. H steel is 1200mm above the ground and concreted 600mm into the ground.
Steps up into the rear garden
Treated pine sleepers are 2400mm long 75mm thick.  Sleepers longer than 2400mm are not strong enough for this height of retaining wall, so should not be used when an engineered wall is needed. The posts were left for a few days to let the concrete set. The the sleepers were then just slotted into place.  Smashed up bricks and rubble was put 300mm deep at ground level behind the wall to provide drainage so water doesn't build up behind the wall. The slope of the land means water will naturally run away from the wall and not build up behind it. I'm happy with the result. I just need to clean up and wheel barrow all the extra dirt away, a job that keeps being put off for some reason! At the same time I decided to make a set of steps up into the back garden from this side of the property. A simple matter of digging into the bank and using sleeper off cuts I had laying around and using cut up star pickets hit into the ground to retain each step. Now the neighbour can lay lilydale topping up his drive way up the side of his house.

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