Mix your mortar and place a 1 inch bed of mortar around the damp footing surface.
How to rebar concrete retaining wall.
If your wall is over 20 feet long it will add the amount of overlap required.
How to pour a concrete retaining wall.
Calculate the amount of rebar needed for reinforcing a wall.
Build and prep footing.
Build the footing and insert rebar into the wet concrete.
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With the tip of your trowel push the mortar into the footing so that it creates a v shape.
Place it so that the 3 8 inch gap is filled.
Measure and mark footing locations.
For each additional 20 foot increase of the wall length it will add an additional amount of overlap.
This calculator assumes that you are using 20 foot long lengths of rebar.
Refer to the plan or schematic for the retaining wall.
Then use the marking paint and measuring tape to lay.
Lay out the wall and excavate the slope and the footing trench.
Scrape off excess mortar.
So far we used 2 tons of 6 3 4 inch rebar and 1.
As a minimum 4 rebar 1 2 inch is spaced vertically at 36 inches on center continued to within 8 inches of the top of the wall placed on the tension side the inside face of the wall.
If your wall is over 40 feet long it will add 2x the amount of overlap required.