Block Wall Installation Guide

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Block wall installation guide.

To bury the first row. Place the blocks side by side flush against each other and make sure the blocks are in full contact with the leveling pad. Cover the gravel between your retaining wall and landscape with topsoil or sod so your garden will grow against your wall achieving a natural look. Single corner unit has one squared off end.

Excavate the entire area to a depth of 8. This will allow for topsoil and grass. Prepare the foundation step 1. The most common are.

G wrap filter fabric over the top portion of gravel 6 below the coping surface. Install filter fabric against the native soil and place the backfill gravel between the blocks and the filter cloth fig. Install wall rock and backfill materials fill the hollow cores and a minimum of 12 in. The installation guide provides the correct steps to follow during the first phase of wall construction.

With the layout marked you can begin digging the trench. Adjust for sloping ground. Used in the middle of walls where both ends are covered by adjoining. Use approved soils to backfill behind the wall rock and in front of the base course.

Using a shovel mark the ground where the retaining wall will be built. For row one knock off the flanges with a hammer and chisel so the. Install the wall rock to be level. Drive long wooden stakes into the ground.

Allan block has the solution for a wide variety of applications. The block caps should overhang the retaining blocks by 1 to 1 1 2 inches. Dig for the first row of block. Used at the ends of walls where the end of the block is exposed.

To determine the width of your future wall decide how many cinder blocks you want to use for the wall width then calculate the width using the block s measurements. Use a plate compactor to consolidate the area. In conjunction with the technical drawings that illustrate each step in detail these documents will facilitate the assembly required for each type of structure. Spread approximately 4 of gravel evenly in the trench and rake the.

Create a small swale which is graded properly to carry water away from the back of the wall. Using construction adhesive secure your block caps and create the top layer of your retaining wall. How to build a block retaining wall step 1. Remove the rear lip of the block so that it will lie flat on the leveling pad.

For example if your cinder blocks are 8x8 in 20x20 cm and you want to use 2 blocks to make up the wall s width your total wall width would be 16 in 40 cm. Begin laying block at the lowest elevation of the wall. 300 mm behind the wall with wall rock. Bury the base course of block.