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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas
My brother faced a similar problem only the hill was coming down on his house.
He went with the locking block wall. The concrete had nothing to do with the wall construction. It was put in for parking space.
Yes, it's a lot of work. He has a really good crew helping get his place ready. The wall will get two more courses of block on top. |
That wall looks too "vertical". Usually the blocks are stacked sloping TOWARD the grade for strength. Also, every foot of vertical stacking, there is a horizontal mesh that is attached securely to the blocks.
Second type is a wall that uses vertical piers or caissons. The depth of the piers depends on the height of the wall, and potential for wind loading. We built a retaining wall with caissons spaced two feet apart into a cmu block wall and on top of a cantilevered footing that went around an electrical transformer. It was a clever engineering solution at the time that solved several problems at once.