Retaining wall with strip foundation and cascading formwork blocks

Hello tim

the concrete mixer will certainly drive onto your property. If no obstacles make this impossible. The ground is currently dry, making sinking unlikely.
But calculate beforehand how much concrete you need. For 2-3 m³ ready-mixed concrete is not worthwhile. From 5 m³ despite the minimum quantity, it is already worth it.

Steven

We have just completed 37 linear meters of foundation for shuttering blocks (50 W x 25 H x 17.5 D) for a retaining wall for the terrace behind us; at our place, the front will still be faced with bricks, so the base is quite wide at 40 cm.

Only strip foundation required 2 concrete mixer trucks each with 4.5 m3. You really need 3-4 helpers for such a task.
One of the trucks extended the chute with a 5 m pipe; the other one in the picture also extended the chute and mixed the concrete nicely on site to a fluid consistency for shoveling.
You can still shovel yourself enough for the stones later


Instead of a shuttering head on top, the builders adapted the shuttering blocks at the bottom to the slope of the ground and after the foundation had dried, placed them onto the new concrete bed; then two rows of shuttering blocks for about 50 cm height on top. The vertical reinforcement is still missing in the picture.

Shoveled myself - because of plenty of drainage pipes. The most fun was the compacted silt layer at 30-60 cm depth.