Garden retaining wall thoughts

[TheGardener]

Hello all,

brand new here but wanted a wee opinion on the wall below. It's to be around 10m long on a large radius curve. Soil conditions are good drainage and not too clayey (is that a word?) or silty

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• TheGardener
• 21 Aug 2009
• 2

Will it hold or should I beef up the wall to double thick until 5c and single brick to 10c and widen the founds?

Thanks

 

[noseall]

Just build it 225mm thick throughout, why mess about.

You can then top the wall off with solid headers laid flat or soldier headers, both either with or without a tile crease.

A half brick wall tends to look rather weedy in any case.

 

[alittlerespect]

Have you considered people tripping/falling over the edge of the wall? Ideally you should consider extending the height of the wall to provide a noticeable juncture between the two ground levels, so you end up with say a dwarf wall at the highest ground level.

Size of the reinforcing is a bit of overkill, what you are trying to avoid is the overturning moment of the wall and with the detail you have shown this is not going to be a problem neither will the heightening of the wall. You could omit the reinforcing altogether as concrete is known for its compressive strength and you wouldn't normally introduce reinforcing for such a minimal loading.

Regards

 

[TheGardener]

Thanks all. Will leave out the steel and just use mass conc and add a brick course and high coping on top to make the division more obvious.

By 1 and two brick thick I meant on the stretcher so as to be 435mm thick at the base and 215 for the top 5c. Thought I might need the extra mass to stop it overturning. but if 215 all the way in reckoned to be ok i'll just do that.

Anyone else got 2p worth?

 

[noseall]

Anyone else got 2p worth?

I, would....




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