Mortared Recycled Concrete Retaining Wall

This adaptive reuse also kept the concrete out of the landfill.
Mortared recycled concrete retaining wall. A mortared stone retaining wall must rest on a concrete footing extending below the frost line. We ll talk more about pouring concrete footings for mortared stone walls later. Pour the concrete footings before the ground freezes. Dig a trench about 6 inches wider than your wall.
Mortared walls rest on a rebar reinforced concrete footing set below the frost line and require weep holes to relieve soil pressure. I salvaged a couple tons of broken concrete to reuse in the construction of a retaining wall. Retaining walls can be constructed using a variety of materials from poured concrete and large timbers to natural stones even bricks. Music learn to fly by josh woodward.
This is the third section i built of a mortared stone retaining wall. We wedge the pieces and tip the walls so it is not just straight up and down. Do the layout for your wall before winter arrives it will be easier to do the planning before the ground freezes. It must be deeper than the frost line or at least 12 inches deep for a 3 foot high wall.
Cantilever retaining walls work on the principles of leverage and are often constructed in the shape of an inverted t with reinforced concrete or mortared masonry. We break the pieces into square foot blocks. Do choose a material you can easily work with. Mortar free dry stacked stone retaining walls need only a crushed stone footing.
Tamp the gravel in the bottom of the trench and pour at least 8 inches of concrete. Figure out what materials you need get them on site and get them covered with tarps. In addition the front face of the retaining wall must be sloped back 1 inch per foot of height. The lower reused concrete retaining wall is complete construction was the same as a bookleaf dry stone wall with the roughly broken 300 x 600mm 1ft x 2ft concrete slabs laid stretcher bond style and the smooth sawn pieces from our neighbour forming the base course where their textural difference would be less noticeable.
Fieldstone 11 per square foot uninstalled.