Retaining Wall Finished on 6 March 2019
Yesterday was a big day on the retaining wall. We started it waiting for twenty more concrete posts to be delivered. They came just before 9:00am. We then completed the last three wall panels on the west boundary. As a precaution we braced the wall where we had used the fence posts for supports ahead of back-filling. First component of the back fill was all of the old fence posts and rough rocks and other hard debris. Then a large load of tennis ball sized rocks was delivered. All hands on deck to barrow those from the front of the house to the wall. They comprise a layer about 40-60 cm deep and 50 cm width from the inside wall side. It will be this layer that I direct excess water runoff into the wall so it seeps under it and into the existing natural depression on the adjacent land to the west of us.
About 1:30pm a tractor arrived and over the course of an hour pushed all of the dirt/rock fill back into place and leveled up the back yard. He also shaped the west boundary from the end of the wall to the concrete side fence. (He also pushed a truck load of fill from the front yard to the northern end of the eastern boundary. We are now all set to get quotes on the two meter metal fence that will enclose the back yard.) I was filthy and buggered by the end of the day and slept rather well last night.