For a detailed Multitorial on Retainingand Patio Walls - Holding Back The Earth, click here CHECKING FOR ACCURACY: An inaccurate level can really cause you problems. There would be barely over one cubic yard of concrete, per extra foot of footing width (footing depths are typically one foot), hmm 30 cubic feet, there are...
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Since I\'m laying block on a cured concrete footing, I\'m wondering if I use a full mortar bed for the first course or if I only mortar the \"face shell\" profile so that later, when I pour grout into the grout cells of the blocks the grout can contact the concrete footing and not...
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I have the windows framed to utilize Pittsburgs mortar system I + perimeter channel -block size plus 1/4\"- I have no masonry experience and thought that this system would be more user friendly, I planned to place the block into the window and use the grout bag per your tutorial, but now I realize...
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Straw Bale Patio Walls - Some Advice and a Chemistry Lesson I was recently called out to consult on a straw bale patio wall that had failed miserably in its duties as a wall. In the video I cover straw bale walls from conception to completed wall.
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