The hollow core design combines with mortarless construction to allow water to drain freely from behind the segmental retaining wall.
Solid concrete retaining wall blocks.
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This heavy weight solid block is uniformly square and free of large chips.
Of leveling sand and half the height of the first course of blocks.
Of compacted base 1 in.
For example you can make a concrete block wall stronger than a poured concrete wall by simply adding some reinforcing steel and additional mortar to the block wall.
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A cinder block retaining wall is only as straight and solid as the base it s built on.
The perfect retaining wall system versa lok retaining wall systems are cost effective easy to install and give you endless design options.
When concrete blocks are stacked on top of one another you can look down through the center of the foundation.
Tall wall excavate a trench deep enough to accommodate 4 to 6 in.
Redi rock gravity walls rely on massive concrete blocks to hold up the earth.
These mortarless walls do not need frost footings.
Lighter hollow blocks are available but they can t be split because cutting will expose the voids.
These heavy weight interlocking gray blocks are uniform in texture size and color while being dimensional and accurate.
These solid landscape retaining wall blocks are heavy.
The gravity wall system is an engineered retaining wall solution that relies on the weight of massive one ton blocks to retain the earth.
X 4 in concrete block 33 lb.
The addition of thin wire truss reinforcing.
Incidental water moves easily through a vertical drain that is formed by the layer of wall rock placed behind the block and in the block cores.
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The dry stack construction technique allows the incidental water to escape by flowing around the blocks and out the.
Versa lok segmental retaining walls are made from high strength concrete units dry stacked interlocked with pins and set on granular leveling pads.
After the concrete blocks are laid the voids can be filled with a cement based mortar or poured concrete that contains small pea gravel.