Measure from the edge of your concrete footing to the point where the outside face of your wall will be.
Building a recycled concrete wall.
Recycle it into a beautiful raised planter walkway or patio.
If you hope to pull off a well done recycled concrete driveway.
Step by step guide to recycled concrete driveway construction step 1.
Now that your supplier is squared away you re ready to make actual plans for your new.
Tall wall excavate a trench deep enough to accommodate 4 to 6 in.
Of compacted base 1 in.
Drive a nail into the concrete here.
Measure out from that nail to where the other face of your wall will be and place another nail.
Of leveling sand and half the height of the first course of blocks.
How to build a concrete wall figure a.
Cross section of a retaining wall a cinder block retaining wall is only as straight and solid as the base it s built on.
You re tearing out an driveway or patio.
What do you do with all that old broken up concrete.
The lower reused concrete retaining wall is complete construction was the same as a bookleaf dry stone wall with the roughly broken 300 x 600mm 1ft x 2ft concrete slabs laid stretcher bond style and the smooth sawn pieces from our neighbour forming the base course where their textural difference would be less noticeable.
So if your wall is 8 inches wide your two nails should be 8 inches apart.