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How to build a broken concrete wall.
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Add 2 to 3 inches of sand in the trench.
To form a concrete wall first set up plywood boards on either side of your concrete footer and attach them together with wire.
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Different ways to use recycled concrete.
We wedge the pieces and tip the walls so it is not just straight up and down.
Then pour your concrete inside the form using a chute or hose attached to the mixer.
We do a lot of broken concrete retaining walls and they work very well.
My new grand plan d re used the old broken concrete cut up into smaller slabs to create 500mm 20 high gravity walls keeping it on site in a very environmentally virtuous way.
Stack the broken concrete pieces to form the wall.
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We break the pieces into square foot blocks.
To make the wall as strong as possible pour the concrete in layers no higher than 20 inches working from 1 end of the wall to the.
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