Judging by the pictures you may want to get a mason in to fix the foundation at the corner of your house before you build your wall. I would think that if you leave a void under that brick facing it will all come tumbling down sooner than later.
I also like that siding upper retaining wall ;o
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Just a question because I am not familiar with the stone you are using. Is there no back batter on this SRW?
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Lol .. that siding upper retaining wall is just holding dirt we threw up there from the wall we tore down. Its not really HOLDING anything.. its been there awhile.
Yes we will have a concrete column build for the foundation wall near the garage door, the garage door will be removed and a wall put in place for an enterence.
There are two concrete ' feet ' on the bottom of these blocks that ' lock ' into the ones adjacent to themselves.
Heres to hoping our wall holds. Near the end. My younger brother comes to help out.... how nice...
I don't see any back batter in this wall. Remind me not to park my Ferrari beside this one. The only thing holding this up is the breeze blowing against it. Sorry.
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I have a question for you: What type of gravel is behind the wall? Or is it just backfilled with that brownish pit gravel looking material?
It seems, based on the limited above-the-wall pictures, that you will get some water flow from the top of the yard.
It looks like you're using block that are 12" deep. No block 12" deep are rated for walls over 4' in height without geogrid. I see no geogrid. Ok, that one wasn't really a question.
You placed your drain tile below the finished grade on the other side of the wall - where will that water be draining? Will it just sit in the pipe?
Portions of some of your block have no caps, inviting water (SRW's biggest enemy) into the wall. Ok, not a question, either.
This one isn't a Q, either - in your L-shaped wall the two sides are not connected to each other. In about a year you should expect to see a small gap forming at the seam of these two sides. That will usher in the beginning of the doom Pelican mentioned earlier.
Judging by the position of the wall along the garage door, as Dan mentioned, it appears there is no batter to this wall. That whole thing I said earlier about needing geogrid? It's even more true if you have a vertical wall, and many times a vertical wall of this height is simply beyond the limitations of a given brand of block.
Also - is that weed fabric you used behind that wall?
FYI, most block specs call for 12" worth of clear drainage rock behind the wall - I'm betting there's only 3-4" between that block and the dirt behind it.
Sorry to beat you up on this, but this is why we didn't want to chime in. There are projects that are great for DIY and projects that aren't. This one aren't.
Cans of spray foam filler can be purchased by the case which adds up to a big savings when doing the finish work between the garage and wall end.
There appears to be a house or some kind of second floor above that garage and that the old wall was just a continuation of the foundation to that. There is a huge danger that the wood framing of the upper floor of that garage is the "reinforcement" that has kept that foundation wall from looking exactly like the old retaining wall. If (when) that fails the cost of a proper solution will look pretty small. The risk of injury or worse is tremendous if that corner is holding up a dwelling.
Lol .. Poor Lanelle wants so bad to say stuff.... Go ahead.
Yes we are getting cornerstone to re-do that L shape on the end. Not sure how to get around the drain pipe tho.
Yes we still have some things to do before we can consider it all done. But for the most part the wall is finished... yes we have put caps on the ' missing caps areas'
LOL, Obviously both the installation guide and my words were a total waste as far as you were concerned. I just hate wasting my time---and I could rescind my whole post (cuz I have the power to do it) but it wouldn't give me back my time or good intentions of trying to help you. Your attitude says it all.
And Stonehenge pretty much said what I was thinking so why repeat his valid points.....
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