Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
Retaining wall made with concrete bags.
As an alternate drive straight rebar rods down through the bags as shown.
Depending on the height of the dam wall and the capacity of the reservoir it may be desirable to leave channels for water to runoff between bags in the top tier.
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Hi all i have a small pond where one bank has started collapsing and i need to build a retaining wall.
I want to put a short retaining wall to level off the slope to my front yard.
Building a retaining wall in the conventional ways is not a trivial matter.
Alternate the staple direction from bag to bag and tier to tier.
Concrete bag retaining wall.
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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.
That s right the idea is that.
Looking at different options the idea of a retaining wall made from.
So diyers have come up with an interesting trick.
Not wanting to waste water and also save some money i decided to even out the lawn.
Then add fill and finally xeroscaping it to save water.
Rather than messing around with mortar they lay the walls down like lego pieces using concrete while it s still in the bag.
Professionally made they can be extremely expensive but they always look beautiful.
Driven into the bags.
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.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.