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Poured concrete retaining wall detail.
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It took a day to rip out the old collapsing retaining wall to dig farther into the hill to provide room for the backfill gravel and to help unload materials.
How to build a concrete wall prep work.
Poured concrete retaining walls can also be decorative and reproduce the look of stone or masonry.
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Earthquake seismic design 7.
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Here are the steps tom ralston owner of tom ralston concrete in santa cruz ca follows when pouring a retaining wall.
A poured wall is much stronger and generally last many more years than a block wall.
This tek contains details for various types of concrete masonry foundation walls with accompanying text as appropriate.
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Stone crete is used for sound barrier walls retaining walls subdivision entry walls or wherever.
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When installed properly concrete offers much more room for customization than any other retaining wall material.
Pouring a concrete retaining wall is not that difficult and this easy to follow how to guide will show you just what to do.
If you want to build a concrete retaining wall you should consider pouring the wall rather than making it out of concrete blocks.
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Poured concrete retaining walls can be colored textured accented with embedded objects and much more.
Reinforcing steel shall comply with astm a615 and shall have yield strength of 60 000 psi.
The minimum concrete compressive strength at 28 days shall be 3 500 psi and shall comply with aci 318.
In this photo increte contractors installed a poured in place decorative concrete wall system called stone crete that creates deep relief stone walls with a variety of available textures and colors.
Planters in direct contact with retaining walls can be a risky choice due to the danger of water seepage through the wall to compromise its structural core and discolor the face.
The wall we built was a weekend long project and an exhausting one at that.
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