Use running bond pattern to stagger ends.
How to build a concrete block garden wall.
Learn how to build a low wall from concrete breezeblocks.
Remove blocks and reset on 1l8 inch bed of bonding cement.
Push the first block into the mortar until it s 3 8 inch above the footing.
Add liquid cement color to surface bonding cement and mix so that it hangs on trowel held at 90 degree angle.
Lay out the wall and excavate the slope and the footing trench.
Build the footing and insert rebar into the wet concrete at intervals corresponding to the cores in the blocks.
Lay out your concrete block in a dry run spacing it with 3 8 inch plywood spacers.
Prepare the footing spread mortar and build leads sliding the block over the rebar as needed.
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Make sure joints between cap blocks are filled with mortar and smoothed with the finishing tool.
Stack remaining blocks dry without mortar.
Once the first row is installed pack native soil to grade level on both sides of this course to anchor the wall in place.
The tops of cement block walls are typically capped by applying a layer of mortar embedding metal reinforcement strips then covering the wall with solid concrete cap blocks.
Creating the block garden wall.
Corners should be interlocked.
Mark all the edges of the course.