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Retaining Wall Advice

Started by daftandhungry, 26th April 2008 09:42 AM

advice, attached, besser, blocks, building, check, clothesline, concrete, continue, couple, decided, drain, elevation, erect, gradually, helps, hill, house, length, leveled, lower, lowest, path, pictures, retaining, slight, slope, top, wall, yard

Replies: 7
Views: 4,541

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd May 2008 09:29 PM; by joe greiner

Forum:
RETAINING WALLS

Limestone wall mortar turning black

Started by jessetia, 28th April 2008 10:18 PM

apply, appreciated, assistance, black, blocks, chemical, consist, greatly, limestone, meter, mortar, noticed, recently, reconstituded, remove, replace, retaining, seal, special, turning, wall

Replies: 3
Views: 3,198

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th April 2008 10:45 PM; by Burnsy

Forum:
CONCRETING

Engineered Retianer Wall

Started by frog_hopper, 23rd April 2008 01:54 PM

advance, bit, built, cost, dirt, drainage, engineered, excavation, fair, frog_hopper, guys, height, house, idea, incorporate, lowest, meter, meters, ranging, required, retainer, retaining, retianer, rough, shape, type, wall, web

Replies: 7
Views: 2,781

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th April 2008 07:33 PM; by Dan574

Forum:
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION, ROOFING, DEMOLITION, etc

Using broken up concrete as fill...

Started by russall, 24th April 2008 11:35 AM

broke, broken, building, concrete, covering, cubic, easy, fill, football, found, info, meters, patio, pine, planning, question, recently, retaining, rubble, size, sleepers, soil, spreading, trated, wall

Replies: 7
Views: 3,808

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th April 2008 12:13 PM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Preparation of timber sleepers for painting

Started by Tubby2, 21st April 2008 12:00 PM

bit, brush, bye, cement, cheers, clean, edges, finished, gday, months, mud, paint, painting, pine, preparation, prepare, retaining, roll, rough, sell, sleeper, sleepers, spray, super, timber, treated, undercoat, wall, wearing, wondering

Replies: 2
Views: 2,963

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd April 2008 09:49 AM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Advice needed on retaining wall timber seat

Started by ozizu, 21st April 2008 09:30 PM

advice, backyard, copy, frame, helpful, idea, ideas, link, needed, retaining, seat, similar, size, timber, wall, walls, wondering

Replies: 0
Views: 3,617

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st April 2008 09:30 PM; by ozizu

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Raising soil level around gum tree

Started by mcolen, 18th April 2008 03:23 PM

added, agree, barrier, base/trunk, cover, die, dry, filling, flatten, gravel, gum, height, ideas, increasing, involves, lay, level, raising, read, retaining, separate, slightly, soil, stay, tree, trees, trunk, wall, water, yard

Replies: 3
Views: 3,126

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th April 2008 07:57 PM; by Calm

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Quick set cement/concrete

Started by alisonol, 5th April 2008 05:25 PM

add, barrow, cement or concrete, cement/concrete, follow, hole, holes, instructions, mix, posts, putting, quick, quickset, ready, retaining, set, straight, stuff, tomorrow, wall, water, wheel

Replies: 2
Views: 4,871

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th April 2008 06:10 PM; by dazzler

Forum:
CONCRETING

Another dividing fence issue.

Started by Tubby2, 22nd March 2008 10:09 AM

50mm-100mm, ahead, backyard, boundary, build, council, council/statute, cut, depth, dividing, drawings, dunno, easment, excavation, fence, filled, heard/read, issue, jeez, level, neighbor, neighbors, neighbours, objections, pay, people, retained, retaining, wall, yard

Replies: 13
Views: 6,419

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th March 2008 02:51 PM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Sealing the back of treated pine retaining wall

Started by Tubby2, 17th March 2008 02:20 PM

100m, 200x50, fix, pine, retaining, sealing, sleeper, sleepers, treated, wall, wondering

Replies: 5
Views: 11,286

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st March 2008 12:19 AM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Cheapest Timber yard in Sydney?

Started by Tubby2, 18th March 2008 01:16 PM

$11.00, $11.90, 200x75x2400, bunnings, buy, cheaper, cheapest, cheers, harpers, lengths, pine, retaining, syd, sydney, timber, toongabbie, treated, wall, yard

Replies: 2
Views: 4,332

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th March 2008 08:17 PM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Retaining wall

Started by alisonol, 11th March 2008 01:18 PM

200, 400mm, building, deep, dig, hole, job, join, meters, middle, pine, planning, posts, questions, retaining, size, sleeper, sleepers, smallish, stages, strong, thinking, treated, wall

Replies: 5
Views: 3,577

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th March 2008 02:16 PM; by Tubby2

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Retaining Wall Questions

Started by sanku, 9th March 2008 12:09 AM

add, advance, bigger, black, determined, drainage, filler, fine, finish, flush, hard, highly, joint, mortar, people, perth, project, question, questions, related, retaining, riversand, sanku, score, scored, scoring, soft, tool, visable, wall

Replies: 11
Views: 4,061

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th March 2008 09:37 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
RETAINING WALLS

Help on Rough Estimate for Fence

Started by AustinHealy, 7th November 2007 10:49 PM

2.6, 800mm, brick, cost, estimate, fence, fence/retaining, height, length, metres, retaining, rough, roughly, wall

Replies: 7
Views: 5,857

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th March 2008 07:47 PM; by Hadamona

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

Help with Retaining Wall

Started by Blazeit, 4th March 2008 08:27 PM

900mm, appreciated, bars, base, ben, blocks, blue, build, cheers, dig, drainage, embarking, fist, footing, guys, holes, info, lasting, leave, metal, option, pipe, questions, raised, reo, retaining, sturdy, suggestions, wall, weep

Replies: 12
Views: 5,282

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th March 2008 12:34 PM; by Jacksin

Forum:
RETAINING WALLS

Water proofing block retaining wall

Started by Rob Mey, 4th March 2008 09:10 PM

applied, besser, bitumen, block, bottom, cheers, clean, concrete, constantly, damp, directions, dry, extension, forms, hits, moment, paint, products, proof, proofing, rain, remains, retaining, rob, sun, surfaces, wall, water, wet

Replies: 2
Views: 7,350

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th March 2008 01:35 PM; by Rob Mey

Forum:
RETAINING WALLS

Natural land slope

Started by Yann, 12th February 2008 11:08 AM

900mm, backyard, bed, difference, elevation, excavate, excavated, fence, flower, gradient, house, land, level, natural, planning, retaining, running, sandy, slope, soil, sort, stabilise, thinking, walls

Replies: 9
Views: 2,293

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd March 2008 01:56 PM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Rendering House

Started by KRS, 9th October 2007 08:46 PM

achieve, advice, bagged, bit, bugger, coat, corners, dry, finshing, gday, hard, hidden, house, krs, mix, practice, pre, products, recomedations, render, rendered, rendering, retaining, shotcreter, skills, starting, storeys, surfaces, vertical, wall

Replies: 4
Views: 3,979

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 09:07 PM; by Ace

Forum:
RENDERING

Removal of mortar between limestone blocks

Started by Yann, 9th February 2008 02:10 PM

advance, angle, backyard, blocks, bolster, existing, found, grinder, hammer, jack, limestone, mind, mortar, move, quick, re-use, removal, remove, renovation, result, retaining, step, success, wall

Replies: 4
Views: 2,774

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 06:49 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
CONCRETING

Best time to clean bricks???

Started by Fr_303, 17th December 2007 03:12 PM

acid, brick, bricks, clean, guys, mix, recommend, retaining, time, wall, water, weekend

Replies: 9
Views: 2,722

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 05:57 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Retaining Wall Steps

Started by Art Martin, 18th December 2007 12:17 PM

attached, besser, blocks, bricks, build, building, compacted, completely, concrete, fill, heights, hoping, ideas, imagine, increasing, information, knowledge, level, link, pass, pic, retaining, soil, solid, steps, stringers, terraced, trust, wall, web

Replies: 10
Views: 7,976

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th February 2008 05:45 PM; by autogenous

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Alternative to 'setting' blueboard joins

Started by Tubby2, 20th February 2008 02:14 PM

90mm, alternative, blueboard, blueboarding, building, cheers, cover, creative, etting, feature, gday, idea, join, joins, merbau, metal, option, paint, paints, piece, process, render, retaining, setting, sort, strip, thinkers, ugly, vertically, wall

Replies: 1
Views: 2,991

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th February 2008 04:25 PM; by sports fan

Forum:
BRICKWORK, CONCRETING, PAVING, RENDERING, etc

paving over concrete question

Started by Mark CH, 25th February 2008 09:54 AM

1000mm, adhesive, adn, advice, appreicated, base, cheerio, concrete, cut, edge, extend, gap, level, mark, past, path, pave, pavers, paving, question, retaining, roadbase, sand, sit, smash, wall

Replies: 6
Views: 2,337

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th February 2008 09:34 AM; by Terrian

Forum:
CONCRETING

How to finish of my deck?

Started by dan76n, 22nd February 2008 09:29 AM

advice, angles, boards, cutting, deck, finish, pool, retaining, run, square, thinking, wall

Replies: 9
Views: 4,200

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd February 2008 06:22 PM; by Skew ChiDAMN!!

Forum:
DECKING

Advice Pls - Neighbour wants to put drainage on my property

Started by Hybrid, 10th February 2008 08:12 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

advice, backyard, border, boundary, concrete, cover, door, drainage, effective, front, heavy, issue, knocks, length, neighbour, pipe, pls, potential, property, racking, retaining, running, runs, storm, thirds, tradie, trench, wall, water, yard

Replies: 38
Views: 10,006

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th February 2008 10:51 AM; by GraemeCook

Forum:
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, HEATING, COOLING, etc

Bracing off treated pine sleepers.

Started by Dr - 307, 4th February 2008 12:46 PM

307, 66533, 66536, 66539, bracing, coach, corner, crushed, digging, filled, ground, infront, leads, ledger, metre, pavers, pic, pine, pool, realise, retained, retaining, rock, roots, sitting, sleepers, soil, stirrup, treated, wall

Replies: 13
Views: 5,032

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th February 2008 02:38 PM; by Dr - 307

Forum:
SUB FLOORING

Engineered retaining wall - contact in Sydney?

Started by aquaurm8, 22nd January 2008 03:27 PM

advice, appreciated, bar, civil, contact, continuous, engineer, engineered, greatly, heavy, hooked, leans, length, middle, neighbor, read, rebuild, recommend, replaced, retaining, steel, structural, suggested, sydney, talk, threads, wall

Replies: 0
Views: 1,501

Last Post By:: Last Post: 22nd January 2008 03:27 PM; by aquaurm8

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Retaining Mudstone

Started by ednaruby, 16th January 2008 11:38 PM

1.4m, 1400, 2400, 60deg, battered, beams, class, cut, falls, guy, hardwood, heavy, job, length, mind, months, moved, mudstone, query, rain, rear, retaining, site, sleepers, soil, sort, steel, steep, test, wall

Replies: 0
Views: 1,483

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th January 2008 11:38 PM; by ednaruby

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Retaining wall - preservative paint

Started by BjornMiller, 15th January 2008 09:14 PM

backfill, bjorn, building, cheap, cheers, covered, fairly, finish, front, hardwood, heard, helpfull, ironbark, leave, natural, oil, paint, preservative, products, retaining, slapped, sleeper, sleepers, sleeps, suggestion, suggestions, sump, wall, wise, wood

Replies: 0
Views: 1,918

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 09:14 PM; by BjornMiller

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Retaining Wall slope

Started by BjornMiller, 14th January 2008 07:14 PM

allowing, appearing, bjorn, bottom, cheers, corner, corners, cut, degree, describe, doh, edge, gaps, hard, hope, horizontals, idea, illustration, join, makes, meet, posts, retaining, sense, sheet, slope, tech, timber, wall, writing

Replies: 3
Views: 2,375

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th January 2008 09:05 PM; by BjornMiller

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

retaining wall ideas?

Started by Hammy, 5th January 2008 01:13 PM

1000mm, austral, batter, beams, clay, compacted, cut, diamond, drainage, hope, house, ideas, linkwall, pavers, prefer, pretty, products, professionals, questions, retaining, roadbase, rock, screenings, similar, simple, spaced, suggested, thinking, throw, wall

Replies: 3
Views: 4,228

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th January 2008 12:59 PM; by Hammy

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Driveway Retaining wall to brick or block?

Started by Big Rick, 3rd January 2008 08:18 PM

$534, agie, allot, appreciated, block, blocks, brick, bricks, cost, drain, driveway, footing, gravel, guys.u, happy, hight, ideas, links, max, price, putting, pyrmont, reo, retaining, sold, spare, system, tasman, thinking, wall

Replies: 3
Views: 5,701

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th January 2008 10:08 PM; by Cavemanvic

Forum:
BRICKWORK

Top Soil How deep.???

Started by Fr_303, 1st January 2008 09:55 AM

16.2, 2008, bed, bitimun, bricked, clay, compost, deep, fill, finished, garden, happy, measures, meters, mushroom, paint, plants, project, ready, retaining, seal, soil, top, topsoil, wall

Replies: 2
Views: 4,139

Last Post By:: Last Post: 6th January 2008 12:39 AM; by Timed Out

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Retaining Wall Design

Started by cooperp, 31st December 2007 11:56 AM

1.3m, 1.5m, 16m, 600mm, backfill, beams, boundary, cast, concrete, deep, design, drainage, foundation, ground, head, hole, holes, lay, length, permit, pipe, plan, planning, post, question, reinforcing, retaining, section, surcharge, wall

Replies: 12
Views: 4,801

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd January 2008 08:44 AM; by dazzler

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

So you want to build a deck?

Started by Groggy, 13th November 2007 07:22 PM

backyard, build, built, clothesline, deck, digging, dirt, dog, drain, feed, groggy, house, match, mention, move, notice, pavers, pergola, retaining, shed, shop, sprinklers, swmbo, tap, time, trench, wall, wife, yard, yards

Replies: 8
Views: 8,584

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th December 2007 06:01 PM; by Groggy

Forum:
A Woodies Yarn

Best way to dig holes for posts?

Started by Tubby2, 22nd December 2007 02:02 PM

200x100, 600mm, auger, bar, bobcat, breaker, cheers, clay, crow, dig, diggers, gday, half, hand, held, hold, hole, holes, post, posts, retaining, rock, shale, sleeper, sleepers, start, timber, wall

Replies: 8
Views: 3,852

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd December 2007 02:08 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Hebel block planter boxes

Started by mcchaddy, 20th December 2007 10:02 AM

1200mm, 400mm, block, bouganvilliers, boxes, cheers, couple, feature, fence, fence/wooden, fill/hide, hebel, hide, largish, michael, neighbours, photo, planter, planting, retaining, rock, stronger, top, train, wall, water, wide, wooden

Replies: 1
Views: 5,394

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th December 2007 08:30 PM; by addo

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Treated Pine Sleepers

Started by sstyln, 16th December 2007 03:22 PM

bet, building, bunnings, cheap, east, heap, melbourne, pine, require, retaining, sleepers, supplier, treated, wall, yard

Replies: 1
Views: 5,154

Last Post By:: Last Post: 17th December 2007 05:30 PM; by Spelunx

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Leveling with Dingo, pls advise

Started by mirz, 1st December 2007 01:55 AM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

$280, $80, 11m, advise, attachments, backyard, base, concrete, decided, dingo, estimating, flat, guy, hire, hour, hours, level, leveling, over-charging, pls, posts, rate, remove, retaining, sleepers, suggest, surface, time, wall, wanna

Replies: 32
Views: 10,661

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th December 2007 11:32 PM; by Planned LScape

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Urgent help with Cement Mixer

Started by sanku, 9th December 2007 09:17 PM

appreciated, borrowed, built, cement, contractor, couple, direction, electrical, fault, fencing, guidance, hard, idea, mid, mix, mixer, perth, pretty, pump, repaired, retaining, stopped, suspect, urgent, urgently, walls, week

Replies: 6
Views: 2,870

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th December 2007 09:28 PM; by sanku

Forum:
CONCRETING

How long for render to dry?

Started by Tubby2, 8th December 2007 03:23 PM

assuming, bed, brick, cement, cheers, coat, cure, deeep, dry, fill, frame, garden, leave, long, paint, plants, question, rains, render, rendered, renderer, retaining, spry, stop, summer, time, told, wall, water, weeks

Replies: 4
Views: 12,188

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th December 2007 02:44 PM; by Bleedin Thumb

Forum:
RENDERING

Small Besser Block retaining wall

Started by Art Martin, 6th December 2007 03:01 PM

600mm, 900mm, advice, besser, bit, block, blocks, building, concrete, cores, easily, expensive, figure, fill, grey, harder, lighter, mixed, people, recommendations, recommending, retaining, section, sell, significantly, simply, small, standard, time, wall

Replies: 5
Views: 12,603

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th December 2007 08:52 AM; by Art Martin

Forum:
RETAINING WALLS

Rainwater tank and little stones

Started by cart, 4th December 2007 05:20 PM

2500, 50mm, allowing, cart, depth, fill, indent, intention, left, ltr, period, plonk, possibly, rainwater, ready, retaining, roughly, sand, sleepersmy, stones, tank, tend, time, top, traffic, wall, white

Replies: 4
Views: 2,384

Last Post By:: Last Post: 7th December 2007 09:40 PM; by cart

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Spacing on fence posts

Started by skidave, 28th November 2007 09:39 PM

1200mm, 1675mm, 2233mm, 500m, 6700mm, bottom, build, built, concern, concrete, deep, fence, front, left, length, main, palings, picket, post, posts, questions, retaining, sleepers, spacing, stage, starting, wall, wide, yard

Replies: 8
Views: 2,945

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th December 2007 11:15 AM; by skidave

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Retaining Wall - What size sleepers?

Started by Tubby2, 23rd October 2007 12:34 PM

900mm, atm, buying, cheers, couple, dug, gday, ideas, months, posts, ready, retaining, shale/clay, size, sleepers, start, wall, whales

Replies: 11
Views: 16,520

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd November 2007 08:37 AM; by JulianH

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Completed Retaining Wall

Started by Feralbilly, 8th November 2007 06:38 PM

block, building, completed, cover, filled, filling, garden, ground, hanson, herb, lavender, pics, planting, posting, recently, retaining, rosemary, section, shrubs, slowly, soil, sorts, space, strawberries, terrace, top, wall, walls

Replies: 6
Views: 2,532

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th November 2007 07:05 AM; by Feralbilly

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Fill

Started by Ross, 4th November 2007 09:37 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 1,861

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th November 2007 12:37 PM; by pawnhead

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

retaining wall Q. How do you stop backfill during installation?

Started by antisense, 30th October 2007 04:04 PM

1400mm, 500mm, 900mm, antisense, asbestos, backfill, bunch, concrete, consequenctly, dig, earth, existing, falling, fence, footings, gday, install, installation, pillar, planning, post, retaining, similar, stop, system, tips, tricks, wall, ^_^

Replies: 3
Views: 4,723

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd November 2007 05:06 PM; by Terrian

Forum:
RETAINING WALLS

Landscaping in Perth

Started by Arry, 31st October 2007 09:32 PM

company, experience, grass, landscaping, paving, perth, quality, quotes, reliable, retaining, retic, thinking, wall

Replies: 7
Views: 1,791

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st November 2007 10:00 PM; by Burnsy

Forum:
LANDSCAPING, GARDENING, OUTDOORS

Rendering a Besser Block Wall

Started by srohara, 20th October 2007 07:13 PM

australia, besser, bessers, bit, block, blocks, brick, caused, cement, cheers, concrete, core, crack, draw, dry, filled, happy, hear, hose, idea, mixed, pre, product, render, rendering, retaining, scott, shrink, wall, wet

Replies: 9
Views: 22,171

Last Post By:: Last Post: 27th October 2007 12:17 AM; by rmartens

Forum:
RENDERING

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