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    Setting Out for walls

    Thanks Freddy for waking me up. Tightfistedness can stop me seeing the wood etc.... Cheers
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    Setting Out for walls

    I am building retaining walls and a couple of them will connect to my boundary wall. Obviously I want the two to be at right angles. I am using Pythagoras to attempt to get the two walls at right angles but ... The length of the end of the wall from the boundary wall is 450cm and I have used...
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    Foundations for a retaining wall

    Thanks for all that. Maybe I should have said that it is part of landscaping the front grassed area. There are no structures between it and the pavement. It ground slopes slightly (less than 30cm drop) towards the proposed wall from the pavement (about 2 metres away). Now that you have...
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    Foundations for a retaining wall

    I am going to build a retaining wall 50cm high and 11 metres long using concrete blocks wide side down. I will put in one control joint in the middle. Can the control joint just be left 'open' ie no fibre board inserted? The soil is, at the foundation level, heavy clay. I was advised that I...
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