Pick a building material that will work with the look and feel of your yard.
Landscape timber retaining wall vertical.
How to use landscape timbers for a retaining wall.
A wood retaining wall is a simple attractive and easy to build tool for converting steep slopes and awkward hills in your yard into usable easily navigable land.
A good looking retaining wall depends on level footings and the best way to establish level over long distances is with a builder s level.
Find a location with a steep slope affected by erosion.
Wood retaining wall instructions.
Retaining walls can be constructed with various materials from stone to wood.
Design and build your retaining wall to slope at a minimum rate of.
The materials are fairly cheap and light.
If you re building a wall with only a couple of 4 ft.
Set up wooden stakes and nylon strings to represent the height and perimeter of the retaining wall.
Sold in stores 6 x 6 x 8 plastic timber.
In this video this old house landscape contractor roger cook shows how to build a wood retaining wall with timber to create a play area.
A timber retaining wall is great for reshaping a sloped yard and lending a real identity and presence to your garden area.
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2 625 in x 3 75 in x 8 ft pressure treated landscape timber.
Sections you can get away with using a 4 ft.
There are two basic construction methods each one suited to different conditions.
Signs of soil erosion include exposed roots patches of dead land landscape changes more bugs or worms more rocks soil that is suddenly denser and harder and clumps of grass floating in nearby water.
Landscape timbers are long sections of wood that are somewhat thick frequently 8 by 8 inches.
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These beams are used in many ways from creating.
Stretch another level line near ground to represent the top of the first.
These benefit the most from retaining walls.
A timber retaining wall is usually less than four feet tall.
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Level but for a longer wall rent a builder s level.
One utilizes upright stanchions anchored in a concrete footing with horizontal wall planks usually 2 x 6.