Re: retaining walls and slat fencing

Pooban77

Garden wall and slat fencing using Maubou timber.

Steel 90x90 galvanised posts from footings through retaining blocks.

Used 20mm aluminium channels for the maubau slats and cut own spacers between each slat.

Materials

Versawall blocks and capping
galvanised steel posts 90x 90mm
maubau 90x19mm timber and 70x90 mm
olastic cappings on steel posts
quick dry concrete between posts
stainless screws

Tools

Shovel
barrow
Ryobi angle grinder
Level
straight edge
string line
hammer
Ryobi drill
Ryobi drop saw.

Steps

Step 1

1) dumped 4 loads top soil into property

Step 2

2) dug entire approx 46 m footings ( digger)

Step 3

3 ) hand dug deeper where the posts was going into with steel rods coming up to 600 mm above ground.

Step 4

4) mixed dry concrete and put into trench

Step 5

5) layed first row of versablocks with half block below ground.made sure they where level and followed two other layers above. Filling each row in between with blue stone . Pillars inserted and filled with quick set concrete..

Step 6

6) top row was half filled with blue stone .

7) inserted steel rods for entire length of wall and used mixed concrete to fill.

Step 7

9) 😎capping was glued down.

screwed 20mm Chanel’s to side of galvanised posts.

painted posts and Channel black.

Step 8

10) cut Maubau timber to fit between posts.

11) used off cuts to cut spacers..

12) finally screwed maubau to aluminium channels.

Step 9

13)placed drain coil inside of retaining wall and connected to drain and backfilled with excess blue stone and back filled

Step 10

14/ levelled out top soil

15) planted couch grass.

EricL

Hello @Pooban77

Welcome to the Bunnings Workshop community. It's wonderful to have you join us, and thank you for sharing your retaining wall and fence project.

Your garden wall looks excellent and frames the look of your house very well. The slat timber fencing gives it a nice organic touch softening up the solid elements of your house. A beautiful combination all around.

Again, thank you for sharing such a wonderful project.

Eric

Retaining wall and Merbau slat fence