A similar technique is to fill burlap sacks with regular wetted concrete.
How to sack concrete wall.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
I used to live near a fairly large wall built like this about 30 tall and 100 long arched and angled back.
This can be a very rough process as the concrete in the sacks will shift to.
Click the button to calculate the volume of concrete and man hours not including mixing needed for this job.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Additional wall defects are caused by fasteners and sealants used to secure form boards to the casting slab and resist wet concrete leakage.
This calculator is to be used as an estimating tool only.
Apply the slurry to your new concrete wall by holding the trowel blade to the wall so the slurry is pressed onto it and wiping the slurry across the wall with a smooth arcing motion.
Evenly coat a 2 by 2 foot area.
Concrete sack patching fortunately new concrete finishing compounds have been developed to make it possible to specify and.
Construction step 1 level the area you intend to build the wall around eyeballing it and digging out with the shovel.
While the sealants are.
However an enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
All calculations are rounded up to the next highest whole bag.
I believe it was a wpa project ie nearly 100 years old the sacks leave the concrete with the burlap fabric weave imprinted it is quite nice.
The material and the hard troweled concrete.