Building A Garden Wall

Garden walls are both a useful and picturesque way to shape your landscape.
Building a garden wall. Call 811 to check for buried utility lines before you dig. Garden wall foundation and materials. Garden barriers need a strong foundation to stand year after year. Add liquid cement color to surface bonding cement and mix so that it hangs on trowel held at 90 degree angle.
Marshalls diy guide how to build a garden wall this diy guide provides a simplified and illustrated method to create attractive and functional retaining wa. Remove blocks and reset on 1l8 inch bed of. Watch our short film and discover how to build a garden wall. These instructions describe building a 4 foot by 6 foot by 10 1 2 inch bed with 2 x 4 untreated.
Luckily despite involving some heavy lifting they re relatively easy to create in your own outdoor space. The bed frame can be as simple as 2 x 4s on top of the ground or even patio retaining wall blocks. Building a block garden wall is easier if you use surface bonding cement instead of mortar. Building the garden bed.
While these walls are built from bricks or concrete. The absolute minimum thickness of a foundation used anywhere on in or around a property is 150mm 6 inches. Firstly a garden wall foundation must not be taken lightly. The size is up to you.
Step 3 creating the block garden wall.