Normally i just build srws and stick to small masonry structures. This job has come my waywhere the is a walkout basement. Customer wants a patio. This means we need to build a 1200 face foot retaining wall with heights up to 8 feet and bring in around 800 yards of fill.
Personally, i'd like to do poured concrete walls and cultured stone them. I think it would match the house much better. For some reason i seem to think it will end up costing less then SRW since backfilling will go much faster not having to worry about geo grid.
So if we do poured walls, ow would the walls be engineered? What type of footing? How thick the walls? I had engineering done for a 3 ft masonry wall. Engineer wanting the T footing, then 2 feet of CMU block underground. When it was all said and done, for a 3 ft wall i had 6 feet of wall/footing underground.
Basically, i want to see if i can even meet the constraints of the budget building it this way. I know i will need a engineer. I just want to see if anyone could give me a ballbark per a sq ft # just for the poured walls so i can see if it makes some sort of sense to build the patio this way. Also i need to give somee kind of ballpark $ on the retainer agreement so i can start the design process.
Thanks Matt
Personally, i'd like to do poured concrete walls and cultured stone them. I think it would match the house much better. For some reason i seem to think it will end up costing less then SRW since backfilling will go much faster not having to worry about geo grid.
So if we do poured walls, ow would the walls be engineered? What type of footing? How thick the walls? I had engineering done for a 3 ft masonry wall. Engineer wanting the T footing, then 2 feet of CMU block underground. When it was all said and done, for a 3 ft wall i had 6 feet of wall/footing underground.
Basically, i want to see if i can even meet the constraints of the budget building it this way. I know i will need a engineer. I just want to see if anyone could give me a ballbark per a sq ft # just for the poured walls so i can see if it makes some sort of sense to build the patio this way. Also i need to give somee kind of ballpark $ on the retainer agreement so i can start the design process.
Thanks Matt
A lot more durable than cultured stone pasted onto a concrete wall as the faux rock is the concrete wall.
