Simply decide whether you need 50 or 75mm thick sleepers and the height of your wall.
Sleeper retaining wall steel posts uk.
These king post walls in wembley were installed to retain a subsiding wall around the perimeter of a school.
Pre drill the sleeper and insert a metal rod to at least the depth of the sleeper.
Heavy duty galvanised steel retaining wall posts.
For use in straight line retaining walls.
Then choose which posts you require to finish the job.
H beam posts extra strength.
152 x 152 x 37 uc king post wall wembley london.
The second way to build a sleeper wall is to stand them vertically a vertical walls means you can vary the height of it in different places and even create a curved rather than straight wall.
Dig a 75mm deep trench and use postcrete to provide a base 25 30mm deep.
Building a retaining wall.
Joiner post for joining sleepers in a straight line end post for a neat finish to your wall as functional as it is beautiful the system has the strength and long life of high tensile galvanised steel.
And is flexible enough to cater to single double triple and quadruple sleeper heights.
Railway sleepers slotted into rsjs rigid steel joists or steel h or i beams have been traditionally been used on farms builders yards and commercial settings for decades to create strong retaining walls silo bays aggregate bays boundary walls etc.
Strengthen the sleepers especially if it s a straight wall from behind with metal posts.
Each king post will have a prop installed between itself and the wall a fence will then be erected in front.