We have a sloping block - it slopes every which way! There is a two metre drop from top to bottom overall and various hills and dales! I didn't want to build retaining walls as I have seen many come to grief during wet weather. I love the look of dry stone walls but don't have the skill sets or resources to build. Solution - our mock curved gabion wall. Total cost (including the slab of beer for the friend who donated the rocks) - $300. We used galvanised star pickets and gal fencing. Geoff cut the fencing with a angle grinding into four lengths and painted the bits that were going to be in the ground with gal paint. We used recycled wire ties from a friend who used to do concreting throughout the structure to stop the sides from bulging. (About four ties spread evenly from top to bottom throughout the length of the wall.) Voila!
Trouble is it looks so good that another friend - a landscape architect - thinks we should build another one by way of providing 'balance'! Geoff just shaking his head.... his task list is never ending - pitched roof on the chook house next!
looks fabulous
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