Morning
Got a question about retaining walls for you all.
Moved into a new house, and the area behind the garage is a mess (obviously just left when the garage was dug out of the hill); it’s a big slope. A waste of space, and dangerous for the kids.
So a retaining wall. It’s about 1.5m between the two ground levels, and about 10m long (ie the 5m at the back of the garage, and 5m at the side of the garage).
I’m thinking a 1.5m solid wall wouldn’t look the best, and be more dangerous, and would cost exponentially more than a stepped wall – say two rows of 0.75m, with a 2ft bed in between the two. Something like this
but with straight walls, not curved. And less high.
Would this route be substantially cheaper?
In addition to this we need to move the wall by the back door out another 2m; to allow a table on the patio. It’s about 12m long, about 60cm high. All the soil we’d dig out here could be used to back fill the other wall.
Is this feasible, and how much do you think it would be? Easy access to the garden, with chalk soil.
Reason I asked was we had a Structural Engineer out the other day to talk extensions; asked him about it, and he said it would 25-30k. Seemed a ridiculous amount for what is basically 3 walls of a similar height (although, don’t get me wrong, I appreciate you need more with retaining walls, but they’re not the highest walls). I was thinking more of the range of under 10k.
thanks
Got a question about retaining walls for you all.
Moved into a new house, and the area behind the garage is a mess (obviously just left when the garage was dug out of the hill); it’s a big slope. A waste of space, and dangerous for the kids.
So a retaining wall. It’s about 1.5m between the two ground levels, and about 10m long (ie the 5m at the back of the garage, and 5m at the side of the garage).
I’m thinking a 1.5m solid wall wouldn’t look the best, and be more dangerous, and would cost exponentially more than a stepped wall – say two rows of 0.75m, with a 2ft bed in between the two. Something like this
but with straight walls, not curved. And less high.
Would this route be substantially cheaper?
In addition to this we need to move the wall by the back door out another 2m; to allow a table on the patio. It’s about 12m long, about 60cm high. All the soil we’d dig out here could be used to back fill the other wall.
Is this feasible, and how much do you think it would be? Easy access to the garden, with chalk soil.
Reason I asked was we had a Structural Engineer out the other day to talk extensions; asked him about it, and he said it would 25-30k. Seemed a ridiculous amount for what is basically 3 walls of a similar height (although, don’t get me wrong, I appreciate you need more with retaining walls, but they’re not the highest walls). I was thinking more of the range of under 10k.
thanks