Measure from the edge of your concrete footing to the point where the outside face of your wall will be.
How to build a low concrete wall.
Prized for their strength and versatility concrete retaining walls require precise construction methods.
How to build a concrete retaining wall a step by step guide to pouring concrete walls updated june 26 2020.
Stack wood planks to create a frame for the wall.
Make it look rural and it will look quaint.
Then use the marking paint and measuring tape to lay.
A cheap farm wall with a really cheap sill plate made out of treated wood with some deck screws in it and pressed into the wet concrete.
Measure and mark footing locations.
What you need tape measure circular saw brick set small sledgehammer chalkline pencil mason s trowel level line level mason s blocks wheelbarrow concave jointer story pole.
The cheapest and easiest material to use is 2 in 4 in 5 1 cm 10 2 cm boards cut from a softwood like pine.
Poured concrete retaining walls can be colored textured.
Level to level blocks lengthwise and a torpedo level to level the front to back.
So if your wall is 8 inches wide your two nails should be 8 inches apart.
Install the first course of blocks using a taut string line to establish a straight row.
Once the first row is installed pack native soil to grade level on both sides of this course to anchor the wall in place.
If the wall is built exactly people notice your mistakes.
Measure out from that nail to where the other face of your wall will be and place another nail.
These wood barriers hold the concrete in place as it dries so you will need to create 2 of them.
The concrete foundation needed to support a cement block wall is usually created by pouring concrete into a hollow form lining the sides of the excavation trench but the concrete can also simply be poured into the trench a common scenario for construction of a freestanding landscape wall.
Drive a nail into the concrete here.
With this high level of technicality comes incredible versatility.
Refer to the plan or schematic for the retaining wall.