Hello community,
I need your advice.
I have started a project in my garden. I want to build a garden wall using formwork blocks.
My original plan was:
Dig 90cm (35 inches) deep, place reinforcement bars, then fill with concrete and finally set the formwork blocks.
So far, so good.
Then I rented an excavator and started digging.
Instead of the planned 30cm (12 inches) width, I now have a trench about 50cm (20 inches) wide (plus or minus 5-10cm).
I now have a few options:
1. Use larger reinforcement cages and fill with more concrete. The entire garden will be filled up by 30cm (12 inches) later.
2. Build formwork with shuttering panels, then remove and sell the panels on eBay.
3. Use stay-in-place formwork made of XPS insulation boards.
What do you think?
Or does anyone have a better approach?
I am leaning towards option 2, but I’m unsure.
Regards
I need your advice.
I have started a project in my garden. I want to build a garden wall using formwork blocks.
My original plan was:
Dig 90cm (35 inches) deep, place reinforcement bars, then fill with concrete and finally set the formwork blocks.
So far, so good.
Then I rented an excavator and started digging.
Instead of the planned 30cm (12 inches) width, I now have a trench about 50cm (20 inches) wide (plus or minus 5-10cm).
I now have a few options:
1. Use larger reinforcement cages and fill with more concrete. The entire garden will be filled up by 30cm (12 inches) later.
2. Build formwork with shuttering panels, then remove and sell the panels on eBay.
3. Use stay-in-place formwork made of XPS insulation boards.
What do you think?
Or does anyone have a better approach?
I am leaning towards option 2, but I’m unsure.
Regards
Your garden wall will be more stable than many foundations for single-family houses with strip footings 😀
If you have a structural engineer, you can follow their guidance.
Otherwise, when pouring concrete, you can also add 25 kg (55 lbs) of steel fibers per cubic meter, which is more economical than building reinforcement cages.
If you have a structural engineer, you can follow their guidance.
Otherwise, when pouring concrete, you can also add 25 kg (55 lbs) of steel fibers per cubic meter, which is more economical than building reinforcement cages.
TmMike_2 schrieb:
Your garden wall will be more stable than some single-family house foundations with strip footings 😀
If you have a structural engineer, you can follow their guidance.
Otherwise, when pouring concrete, you can also add 25kg of steel fiber per cubic meter (35 lb per cubic yard), which is cheaper than building reinforcement cages. Germany is upgrading!
The garden wall will outlast my house ☺️