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Retaining wall thickness

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Morning guys

Starting a job Monday building a retaining wall along the back of a garden.

The wall is approx 20m long then returns for 5m and is 1.2m high.

The original Plan was to build it 18” at the bottom for a course then step in into 14” and finish with 9” on the top.

wall is being built with 100mm dense concrete block and is getting a 100mm railway sleeper strapped to the front to hide it.

customer has asked if we could just build it 14” at the bottom just to save some space as it’s getting a sleeper in front.

Any structural guys about know if that would be fine?

cheers
 
Sounds OK, rule of thumb for retaining walls is the thickness at the base should be about 1/3 of the height.
 

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