Wood Retain Walls in Garden?

Before Wood Retains

Wood retain wall in the Garden yes or no i think yes we have been putting in Wood retain walls now for years and the advantages are out waying the disadvantages such as wood is relatively cheep compared to Brick plus it is easier to build with.
Do not get me wrong you still have to take great care when building as you do not want the wall to fall
1. Dig out a foundation to 6 inch then put in hard core ore concrete
2. Level Foundation and string line the area from one side to the other.
3. Lay your first New Railway sleeper and make sure it is level along and across.
4. Lay drainage pipe behind sleeper and fill with gravel up to top of sleeper 1
5. Some people like to stagger the sleepers like building a wall i myself pref are to lay them on top of each other then where they join put a sleeper vertically into the ground concreted in this covers the joints and there is no way the sleepers will get by the vertical upright.
6. If you go for the stagger make sure the area that is not supported is either pinned in with a rod to stop it being pushed out to do this drill through the wood and push the long rod through both sections of wood
7. continue building until the required height then put in Sleeper uprights to hold the wood in place then go around all the sleepers screwing them together with large screws.
8. Once finished paint wood to required colour.

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Charles White