Hi, the rear garden of my property has three small tiers that go up to the top end of the garden. The tiers are about 3m total depth with a final height of the third one about 1.8m. They are currently held by three stone walls that are just set on the soil with no footings at all.
Basically I want to take out the first two tiers and just build a retaining wall about 1.8m high to free up this space. I have seen the other threads on retaining walls and they all seem to be pretty long. Mine would only need to be about 5m long.
I was planning to build it out of hollow concrete block on a reinforced concrete footing. I was going to reinforce the wall with rebar running horizontally and vertically and they fill the hollow with concrete. One end of the wall would tie to a very sturdy garage and I was going to form an L shape with the other end and gradually step it down to ground level and put a little fence along it as it is next to the boundary.
I was just wondering thoughts really? I don’t know if I’m going for overkill with all the rebar but most things I build are over engineered anyway. Help with footing dimension would be useful
ta
Basically I want to take out the first two tiers and just build a retaining wall about 1.8m high to free up this space. I have seen the other threads on retaining walls and they all seem to be pretty long. Mine would only need to be about 5m long.
I was planning to build it out of hollow concrete block on a reinforced concrete footing. I was going to reinforce the wall with rebar running horizontally and vertically and they fill the hollow with concrete. One end of the wall would tie to a very sturdy garage and I was going to form an L shape with the other end and gradually step it down to ground level and put a little fence along it as it is next to the boundary.
I was just wondering thoughts really? I don’t know if I’m going for overkill with all the rebar but most things I build are over engineered anyway. Help with footing dimension would be useful
ta
