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larry@stinescorner

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Just got home,,and posted some pictures of the wall project
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I was out by the road directing any traffic
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ii have to get a load of clean gravel to backfill yet,,,,Cast your vote
 
Did you put a field tile on back side to keep water pressure off of it? It's a must in my area with the heavy clay.
 
I was going to ask what was wrong with the old one but then I could see, albeit difficult, it was collapsing. I really like the way that
system goes together and how it looks finished. Never knew there was such a wall system but then never had a reason to look.
 
Thumbs up here. We have "landscape blocks" around here, but not nearly as classy as what you used.
 
Looks great! Your place is well taken care of. When excavating, did you find anything in the soil? Given the places age, you never know what can turn up, always fun to find an old milk bottle or something.
 
Very nice, and you clearly take pride in your buildings and landscape of your property. Looks great!
 
It looks very good. I'm surprised no deadmen are required to relieve some of the weight which will bear against the wall once it's backfilled.
 
Looks great.....good job of supervising. I know
that you know to bring the gravel backfill around
the front corner so the water can follow it, you've
built plenty 'o walls, this was the easiest.
 
Aha! I spotted two shovels and a rake...so maybe not as easy as it looks :D Nice wall, tho! Send that crew south....
 
Larry Why was the top short block not placed on the left end and normal bricks are laid. Is there a reason more that it being built like you wanted it built? LOL We used the same system on my walls when I built the house, lot quicker than forming and pouring. Lots of argument here on whether starting on crushed stone or poured footing is best.
 
Hey! That's more than one wall! Took me a bit to figure that out. Lol is that cheaper than laying a
block wall? Looks good to me too.
 

Larry, from the pro, I would like to know if the six inches of 3/4 stone works out as a base for stone and block walls. I see it used all the time without removing the dirt from under it first. I don't see how it prevents the frost from heaving the wall, or is it that it is supposed all go up and back down at the same time?
 
he didnt have any more small blocks with the end rock Patterned on it,so we had to use a big one,,or you would not see rock pettern on the end
 
Looks nice. Now what keeps it from tipping over from pressure on the back side? Here you would have had to run those old pieces of wall back with the excavator. The truck would never get back in the field like that. To wet.
 
I agree, looks great.
I share the same concern, all the rain off the roof could make things muddy.
Something made the old wall fail.
Where I live, the frost line is 24 inches. When I added on to my house I made a 2 ft wide 32 inch deep footer. I figured the additional concrete was cheaper than the cost of smaller footer and paying someone to use block to bring it up to ground level. The larger footer was a time saver too. We were racing against winter. No longer did I get the addition framed in, winter set in.
The footer was put down in 1991. Nothing have moved, cracked, settled. I used the footer to brick support the brick too.
 

I'd want drainage and some way of tying it into the ramp to keep it from leaning out. Looks nice, but will it last?
 
It looks nice, BUT if I had installed it, the bottom course would have been sunk into the ground about a foot next to the barn wall, and still bedded on the stone with a drain out to daylight from the stone. Time will tell what it will look like in the future. My plan might require another course of blocks though, thus raising the price. Sorry for being so critical, just being honest about it.
Loren
 
Don't know what's under the blocks, (no footer?) will they sink from their own weight? One thing about it, they interlock and can always be reset if there's a problem.
 
If you have not back-filled yet, I would strongly advise adding a drain tile to drain to the front. I know you said that you will back-fill with rock, but almost all wall failures are due to moisture behind the wall. For a few $ more, add the tile and it will last a lifetime.

Larry
 
(quoted from post at 07:11:59 02/28/17) If you backfill with 2B stone all the way to the top it won't move with the frost.
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In what part of the country do they use the term "2B stone"? They sure don't here. It is by size except for rip rap.
 
I don't think the frost is as bad in NJ. Here it seems like the frost moves everything. I wish him the best of luck.
 
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