Recent content by burgerxv

:D :D Thanks Paul, very usefull advice, I definitely tink you are right about the 'toe'. The drainage is going to be quite hefty with 2 cubicmeters of stone and 110mm drainage pipe as you say. I actually hope to catch the run off to use in the garden. Matt

Hi See below The cross section of the wall is a design I was given for a 2.4m wall, using hollow blocks reinforced, the foundations 900mm with 500mm out front and a 1m re-bar running through it and up into the slab and also has a reinforced mesh across the whole of the foundation. This is a...

Hi Thanks I had thought about this system as well but again not sure how the reinforcing effects the required thickness the wall needs to be. Any idea? For the horizontal reinforcement I presume you mean mesh. I can't remember it's exact name. Matt

Hi All I am planning to build a retaining wall 1900mm high, by the advice of this site (http://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/retainingwall.htm) and the hight being 4 times the thickness that would mean it needs to be 475mm thick which is huge. However it says that reinforcing the wall...