Hello.
We inherited some dry stone retaining walls when we moved into our house (quite why you would use such a wall for retaining a bank of earth I'm not sure.)
Yesterday it eventually fell over. How would you recommend I go about fixing it?
I had thought of building a block wall behind the original line of the dry stone wall to take the load, zig zagging the blocks to present a stonger wall to the earth. I would then build up the dry stone wall, leaning it back onto the new wall.
I'm worried about the whole lot coming down, should I hammer some angle irons into the bank to strenghten it while I'm working?
Also I had thought of building a damp stone wall (putting some mortar on the backs of the stones to help bind them togther a bit.
All comments on above plans and other ideas very greatfully received!
The image is taken from an upstairs window and doesn't really show how steep the bank is.
We inherited some dry stone retaining walls when we moved into our house (quite why you would use such a wall for retaining a bank of earth I'm not sure.)
Yesterday it eventually fell over. How would you recommend I go about fixing it?
I had thought of building a block wall behind the original line of the dry stone wall to take the load, zig zagging the blocks to present a stonger wall to the earth. I would then build up the dry stone wall, leaning it back onto the new wall.
I'm worried about the whole lot coming down, should I hammer some angle irons into the bank to strenghten it while I'm working?
Also I had thought of building a damp stone wall (putting some mortar on the backs of the stones to help bind them togther a bit.
All comments on above plans and other ideas very greatfully received!
The image is taken from an upstairs window and doesn't really show how steep the bank is.
