Nice Pics! :thumbsup Dumb questions, The blocks, are they cut out of a quarry or manufactured? They make a nice looking wall. Is this method cheaper than just pouring a wall out of concrete or just prettier?
No Dumb questions...this is HEF...see signature
Quarry cut limestone blocks....these ones where terriffic, very heavy and good quality...cept being heavy they drop as they are cut in the quarry and we had a lot of chipped corners.....client very happy, architect complaining. I have to talk metric but the poured footing and small up stand was 25 Mpa conc...because we didn't have the space to get the mass (backing blocks) in straight limestone.
The engineer designed this cockameamy arrangement which, IMHO, is pushing the limits for retaining. Natural limestone only rates between 4 and 8 Mpa...but is often stronger. We do mostly reconstituted limestone and that rates about 16 Mpa. Mass retaining walls are popular here because of the look that "can" be acheived and because limestone is in abundance. This wall in concrete worked out at about $13K for the conc and about $4K for cut limestone cladding to give it the same look as the rest of the walls on the property. I did the whole lot like this for about $10K...all Aussie Dinero I'm talking.
It looks much better after a pressure clean, good drying time and a couple of coats of acrylic sealer binder.
We are about to start a much biggera one which I will post some...as soon as my poor little skid and excavator shift about 900 cubic metres of sand
which should have been shifted by the earthmoving contractor with his loader but wasn't....and he beat me on the earthmoving quote by $2K....which is the reason for the
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...and I'm a gunna:bash this computer cause I'm a bit pee'd off
Where's my pills:Banghead
