Building A Curved Garden Wall

Apr 22 2015 gabion or rock cage walls are usually straight but with a bit of ingenuity you can make curved gabion walls too with spectacular results.
Building a curved garden wall. To help you stay level you build the ends of the wall up a course higher than you re working on making it appear like there are staircases on the ends of the wall. You then fill in the bottom row build the sides up a little higher then continue until you reach the top. The wall is 320mm 12 thick to give it enough weight and solidity for a low retaining wall while maximising the size of the enclosed garden bed. I want to build a 6ft high curved garden wall and was hoping someone would give me advice on how to go about it.
The wall also has a small curved offshoot to tie the retained section back under the deck and there s a small 2 metre 6ft 6 long freestanding echo wall on the other side of the garden that blends into a low rendered wall for a. Curved walls have a greater setback which causes a coning effect to occur causing your retaining wall to have its tightest radius at the top of the wall which in turn creates the need for a larger radius at the base course. Building curved and serpentine retaining walls is simple. Its the sort of wall you see on the garden design programmes contemporary and minimalist.
All help is greatly appreciated. See more ideas about gabion wall gabion retaining wall gabion cages. The overall process of building blocks walls is the same regardless if you are building a straight wall or a curved wall. Use the radius chart to determine what the minimum recommended radius of.
The final height of the wall will determine what the minimum radius at the base course must be.