How to prepare a footing for a Retaining Wall | Adbri Masonry

The third step for your DIY Retaining Wall is to prepare for footing! For this, you'll need to be careful on following the instructions on this video so you can have better and stronger looking retaining wall.

[DCayce]

Most excellent! I was NOT looking forward to mixing, pouring, then racing to level the cement before it dried. Never occurred to me it could be done this way. Thanks!

[darthtrader]

This is amazing. Thank you! Doing a garden wall and you wrapped this up for me. I knew there was a dry approach just haven’t seen it in years.

[mikegibb]

Beautiful masonry work...thanks for the tips

[ilovewrestling]

i am building a small retaining wall. I will have my base and then pack it down. I am considering pouring dry cement on top of it then laying my base blocks down. What do you think of this? what could be some potential issues?

[Demogrunt]

You probably will not come back to this video after 6 yrs but I have been looking far and wide for simple instructions from the dirt to top to build a stone wall with stones & mortar. I mean I can not find any 1hr educational video that shows basic dig down, compact, agg, footer to the top build. the agg footer and link to the back yard education is what I desire. I mean how do I base the wall footer and anchor it to the yard with drainage

[banerifthammer]

How thick should the cement be for the footing?

[markhoverd]

How deep do you need to dig the trench and how thick should the layers of hard-core and dry cement mix need to be?

[atlacatl]

Why do they use mm for their measurements instead of 15 cm etc?

[fredflinstone]

Hey, does anyone know if the sand / cement mix should set before laying the first row in step 6? Or does the first row simply sit on top after it has been levelled? If it needs to set, how long does that take?

[icarossavvides]

Very strange. why use 'road base' or MOT as we call it in the UK? And using just 30mm of mortar/screed, of unknown strength, is never going to do the job long term, is it? We don't put anything at the bottom of house foundations so why do it for a garden wall?

[shreddder]

What about rebar to keep it from toppling??

[Sammy]

this is some good advice and technique! the host sounds a little drunk or maybe just tired ?

[Thumper]

Audio mixing gone bad: music too loud, struggling to hear the voice