on the Salazar Hillside Railroad, we built a retaining wall and allmost complete. to build it, we used some amont of bricks and over thausands of pounds of cement. anyway, we would like some sugestions on ow we could of built a retaining wall, or how we can inprove it.
thank you,
-steven
You really don't give enough information for anybody to intelligently answer your question. You should go back and update your personal info giving some idea of where you might be, etc. What would work in the Arizona desert may not hold up well in Minnesota! Things that work on East Coast probably wouldn't work in the earthquake areas of the West coast!
Better description and maybe some pictures of the work area would help!
Hi Steven,
I'm not sure what you're question is. It sounds like you have built a retaining wall using bricks (concete blocks?) and mortar and you are looking for ideas to improve it. Are you also looking for other ideas on retaining walls. Like Bob said, a few picutres are worth thousands of words....
-Brian
Unless your retaining wall is in an invisible location, my advice is to run, not walk, to the local building commission and find out what you must do to be in compliance with code. The requirements vary from virtually anything goes to having to meet a specific set of requirements and city-mandated inspections. If you build without a permit, the Man could come along and tell you to rip it out! Asking questions costs nothing. Failing to ask them could cost $$$.
How do I know? The only thing that has grown in my back yard since I moved to the Dessicated Desert is a retaining wall - built to North Las Vegas code, with a permit, all inspections complied with. It cost three times what I had expected to spend and is easily 30 times stronger than I thought would be necessary, but the authorities are happy. As a result, so am I.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
i think he means how to descise it to look like a little retaining wall on his layout.
what i think you could do is putt wood strips going vertical.
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