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Retaining Wall Question

Retaining Wall Question

Rusty I purchased your multitorial a few days ago in preparation for the building of a block wall. Most of the neighbors have since replaced their fencing with block wall - 4x8x16 blocks in 12 panels with H-block columns between panels. Block Patio Walls & Retaining Walls - Holding back the Earth
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Planning Ahead – Getting Bids

Planning Ahead – Getting Bids

Ask the contractor to justify the bid - it won\'t work to your advantage to divulge the other bids but letting them know they are the highest or way up there will work to your advantage, if you ask them to explain why their price would need to be higher.
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Concrete & Masonry Sealers and Water Protection Systems

Concrete & Masonry Sealers and Water Protection Systems

I hope you keep your walls sealed and never need the Multitorial: \"Adobe, Brick and Block Restoration\" but if you haven\'t sealed your walls (or bought something that is already having problems) I do have a Multitorial that thoroughly covers repairing and restoring cracked masonry walls click here.
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Masonry Walls – Re-in-for-cement Rebar reinforcement is manditory

Masonry Walls – Re-in-for-cement Rebar reinforcement is manditory

For a detailed Multitorial on Retainingand Patio Walls - Holding Back The Earth, click here BENDING FOR PLACEMENT: If you have a $400.00 rebar cutter, bending rebar is a snap, but if you don\'t you will find this very useful in bending to 5/8\" rebar.
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Masonry Walls – Proper approach to laying masonry walls

Masonry Walls – Proper approach to laying masonry walls

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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First Course on Retaining Wall

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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