How To Build Stone Veneer Retaining Wall
After this butter the back of the stone with a layer of mortar preferably half to one inch thick.
How to build stone veneer retaining wall. Make sure to lay the stones so that they angle in slightly toward the back of the wall. This video offers a great overview of how to build a natural stacked stone retaining wall. Tuck soil in between gaps in the terrace. Traditional retaining walls tend to be drab and boring but faux rock brick stone and wood panels can fix that problem.
The stone is veneered to. This will help the wall resist the pressure of the backfill ground soil behind the wall. A stone veneer retaining wall must be well designed and usually requires a landscape architect or a very capable design build company for construction drawings. This dvd will show you how to build strong and beautiful walls to enhance any location.
Landscape retaining walls serve both a practical and an aesthetic purpose. Now lay the stone against the retaining wall while rotating and pressing slightly. Dry stack walls also drain well allowing water to pass through the wall itself. After completing this first course or foundation backfill with some of your excavated soil and any stones too small to use for building the retaining wall and tamp down the backfill.
The bottom layers will bear the weight of the stones above them. Phil is using tennessee medium stacked stone set on a cinder block foundation. For details and more photos visit my web site at. This is the first stone retaining wall i built back in 2008.
Quality stone masons are recommended for the veneer itself. When laying the next courses of stones backfill and tamp down after completing each row. The easiest way to build a stone retaining wall is to use the dry stack method that requires no mortar between stones and does not need a concrete footing like mortared walls do. Lay the stones starting with the largest stones on the bottom.