The material and the hard troweled concrete.
How to sack concrete wall.
I believe it was a wpa project ie nearly 100 years old the sacks leave the concrete with the burlap fabric weave imprinted it is quite nice.
Click the button to calculate the volume of concrete and man hours not including mixing needed for this job.
There are block retaining walls stone retaining walls and poured concrete retaining walls but these can be quite complicated and expensive.
Evenly coat a 2 by 2 foot area.
Concrete sack patching fortunately new concrete finishing compounds have been developed to make it possible to specify and.
This can be a very rough process as the concrete in the sacks will shift to.
All calculations are rounded up to the next highest whole bag.
You can use this concrete calculator to help you determine the number of bags of quikrete concrete mix mortar mix or fast setting concrete you will need for the following projects.
This is a good size area to work in so the drying of the slurry does not go faster then your ability to rub out the wall.
Input length width and depth of the area.
Additional wall defects are caused by fasteners and sealants used to secure form boards to the casting slab and resist wet concrete leakage.
However an enterprising individual with a few sacks of concrete and a garden hose can make an equally useful and elegant concrete bag retaining wall.
Over time the bags will degrade and you will have an elegant and permanent retaining wall.
A simple cost effective way to make a retaining wall is to stack 60 lb.
Construction step 1 level the area you intend to build the wall around eyeballing it and digging out with the shovel.
This calculator is to be used as an estimating tool only.
A similar technique is to fill burlap sacks with regular wetted concrete.