Footing for a garden wall

Given that it is in the garden, I would want to go mortarless if possible and just stack the brick. It might be more stable to use retaining block.

You could do one course of brick alongside each other lengthwise, then the next course with the brick going perpendicular. I have a wall like this which has been standing for 7 years and the brick were fairly irregular old terra cotta type brick. The wall must be 4' tall.

I would just put in a trench maybe 18" deep and as wide as a compactor and compact some 3/4" minus stone in there and stack on that.

How is the drainage in the area you want this?

UALocal1Plumber said:

Holy mackerel... that's a fantastic link!

Thanks so much. I'll study it fully and post when I'm done (hopefully August)

Keith

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You are quite welcome. Good luck on your project.

May I suggest possibly 16 x 4,...install 12" wide trench footing possibly belled to 16" if poor soil exist. Place your crete just below grade and start building.

As far as the wall, you can back it up with 4" cmu, I'd probably use 6" so I could extended rebar from the footings and grout it solid when your done.

Then you could cap it with some thermal blue...The wifey will love ya and the wall will hold up nicely over the years.

Kinda like this little retainer I built with another side to it...