Homemade Concrete Retaining Wall Blocks
With a few basic skills and a bit of creativity you can easily design and build your own diy fire pit using retaining wall blocks.
Homemade concrete retaining wall blocks. Casting your own blocks is easy. Cross section of a retaining wall a cinder block retaining wall is only as straight and solid as the base it s built on. All you need is concrete and a mold to cast them with. Prepare the foundation step 1.
Build the footing and insert. You could spend your money on concrete blocks from a big box home improvement store or you could make them yourself. As you lay the second course of block insert weep holes 3 4 inch pipe into the mortar every third. Mix your mortar and place a 1 inch bed of mortar around the damp footing surface.
Lay out the wall and excavate the slope and the footing trench. If you want to build a concrete retaining wall you should consider pouring the wall rather than making it out of concrete blocks. Pouring a concrete retaining wall is not that difficult and this easy to follow how to guide will show you just what to do. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube.
How to build a concrete wall figure a. Take your first block and slather the inside end with an even layer of mortar. Our video and homemade fire pit instructions complete with a list of tools and materials will show you how. Adjust for sloping ground.
With the layout marked you can begin digging the trench. A poured wall is much stronger and generally last many more years than a block wall. For row one knock off the flanges with a hammer and chisel so the. Of leveling sand and half the height of the first course of blocks.
Tall wall excavate a trench deep enough to accommodate 4 to 6 in. Place it so that the 3 8 inch gap is filled. How to do it build and prep footing. I d suggest building forms for the wall s base from 2 x 8 boards and then using the same lumber for the block forms after the footer is.
Of compacted base 1 in. Scrape off excess mortar. Most block construction calls for an 8 x 16 footer.