Wire Rock Wall

Hi stephen for a wall 1m high wall especially if it is a retaining wall most councils in sydney will require you to have engineering drawings.

Wire rock wall.

Gabion supply is a leading provider of durable gabion baskets reno mattresses rock fences and geo textile products. View recent customer gabion walls on pinterest. Re stones for filling it depends what look you want. Gabion walls are cheaper much stronger and quicker to install than any other rock wall.

The larger the basket the more likely bellowing is to happen because the less wire mesh is available to support it. Rock filled wire cages or boxes commonly known as gabions have a long history of use for erosion control. Simple low cost stone walls. View our pinterest page.

These walls will require internal support posts imbedded in concrete and spaced on appx. I would suggest you contact one of the gabion cage suppliers. We offer the widest range of gabions. Gabion how to videos.

Put a piece of pipe in every few feet for drainage. The welded wire mats reinforce the soil providing the tensile strength to make the compacted soil into a stable structure. Step 3 gabion reinforcement install support columns. If someone suggested creating a wall or fence from a wire cage filled with crushed rock you might assume it would be ugly and is only used to save money.

Such an effect will eventually destroy the shape of the wall and it s functionality. Over time rock filling cannot slowly sink deeper into the basket causing bellowing due to the weight and pressure of the rock. Sometimes all the junk wire in the yard disappears behind the first large rock at the base of the wall and is filled with cement. Wire and cement at least the base of the rock wall if you need a long term wall.

You will find them lining the banks of streams and seashores or used as utilitarian. We ve used expanded metal barbed wire chicken wire orchard fence etc. Hilfiker s welded wire wall is an inextensible all steel mechanically stabilized earth mse retaining wall system made up of ready to install l shaped welded wire mesh mats placed within layers of compacted soil.