We finally finished out the other side of the culverts by installing the concrete bag wall that was.
Poly bag concrete walls.
Whether you hand mix concrete in a plastic tub homemade mixing tub or wheelbarrow the technique is the same to find the right concrete mix ratio.
Behaviour of plastic mixed reinforced concrete columns under axial compression one of the main environmental problem today is the disposal of the waste plastics.
3 that video above with the guy putting steel in the bags is my video.
2 i have tested several types of bags.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Concrete runs about 4 bucks a bag and at height of 3 or so would require a good number to provide 3 feet of wall.
I ve seen some walls built with used chunks of concrete sidewalk pieces to me they would be leaps and bounds better looking than the bag route.
Read the recommendations on the bags or check manufacturers web sites to find out if one of the special mixes would work better for your project.
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But for most jobs standard concrete mix is fine.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
The use of plastics in various places as packing materials and the products such as bottles polythene sheets containers packing strips etc are increasing day by day.
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And if a wall is chipping or crumbling it s fair to say the bag was taken off way to early.
And might be found for free in you local community.
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There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
1 i have been doing these walls for 30 years.
A big rainstorm came through blue spring farm last week.