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DIY Retaining Wall FAQs With Jason Hodges
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We put some of the commonly asked questions on building retaining walls to our landscaping expert, Jason Hodges. Watch the video as we discuss DIY installation, drainage, council approvals and more, or find the questions and answers below; • • Question: Can anyone build a retaining wall? • Answer: If you can lift the blocks, and with the Miniwall® and stuff, a five-year-old could do it, you can lay a retaining wall. What I'd recommend is watch our videos a couple of times. You'll pick up all the tips and tricks, but even just lay a few out on the driveway or on a flat path and you'll get the gist of it really quickly, and put a pebble underneath one, or a tiny little rock to see what it does to the overall wall. Because a pumpkin said at the bottom can turn into a pumpkin at the top of a retaining wall. So starting off flat level, you'll finish flat and level. • I reckon' the best tool you've got when you're laying a retaining wall is a little hand broom just to make sure that you swept off each course when you go to lay the next one. • Question: Do I need council permission to build my retaining wall? • Answer: It's tough, every council in Australia's different. It does my head in and it should all be the same. Rule of thumb: you can go up to 900mm in my area. Check with your local council, but if you're building something like a raised garden bed for a veggie patch or a fire pit, something like that, go to town, do it yourself. If you're building the Taj Mahal behind it - yes, I would get it engineered and I'd probably speak to the council. • Question: Why is drainage so important to our retaining wall projects? • Answer: It's the difference between apples and oranges, and it's a difference in landscapers as well as DIYers. I could build this wall and someone else can build the wall for you. I've gone to the extra effort of making sure behind it I've got fall, put in an agg line which is just a big flexible pipe covered in a stocking-like material. It means the water comes across your surface down behind the back of your wall, is picked up by that agg line and moved around your wall. • The next person mightn't put it in there, and you mightn't notice it for a couple of years and that's the shame, because all of a sudden one day, instead of having a good-looking wall, you've got a dam wall and I don't mean a damn wall. I mean a dam wall that's holding all the water up and one day it could potentially fall over or at worst it will be quite ugly because it'll always be damp. • If you have any other retaining wall questions, ask them here and we'll get answers to you, from our expert landscapers and engineers. • Or check out our range of quality concrete retaining wall systems, proudly made in Australia. • https://www.adbrimasonry.com.au/homeo...
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