Building A Freestanding Stone Wall

For design reasons however you might choose to build a freestanding wall and fill behind it with soil from another site.

Building a freestanding stone wall.

As this old house senior technical editor mark powers shows here a wall built from cast concrete blocks made to look like stone is just as beautiful and much easier to build especially when your planting season is confined to the weekends. The concrete stones are available in three different lengths giving the wall appearance a more natural look. Free standing walls are designed to stand by themselves without retaining any soil. Walls can serve many purposes whether for decorative privacy or retaining purposes.

Walls are built in courses. When you cut and fill the wall is backed by undisturbed soil which is more stable than fill. Freestanding mortared walls like the fieldstone one i m building here need a stable frost proof footing to prevent shifting and that requires a lot of digging in cold climates. Ask a stone yard to help determine how much material you ll need and have it delivered as close to the site as possible.

As you build the wall toss all unwanted stone scraps behind the wall. Top this gravel with colored stone or mulch to suit the desired look of the landscape. How to build a natural dry stacked stone free standing or retaining rock wall. This product can be used to create straight or curved freestanding stone walls making the highland stone freestanding wall our most versatile landscape product yet.

Learn how to build a retaining wall or a freestanding wall using wall blocks with this step by step guide. And i love rock walls. Or you might do a partial cut and fill which is somewhere between the two. When the wall is complete backfill behind it with gravel up to the level of the cap stones.

All free standing walls share some common building components in their construction. Any wall over 36 in height will most likely be subject to permit requirements. Retaining walls one of the most common scenarios that calls for a freestanding wall versus a retaining wall is whether a home is positioned on flat or sloping ground. They are used for yard division seating walls or general aesthetic purposes.

You have the option of walking along the area where you plan to build the wall removing any roots plants or rocks checking for any soft areas and then tamping down the ground. Step 1 how to build a sitting wall illustration by gregory nemec. Freestanding stone walls are unique in that you don t absolutely need to prep a foundation. Retaining walls and freestanding walls both serve different purposes and belgard has wall blocks to match your desired look and functionality.