The earth wall is crumbling, is it bad?

Yes, that does worry me. I mean, there is about a 1.7 meter wide strip between the house and the ground... but the house wall will still get splattered.

You are right.

Did you manage to clean the house wall again? With a steam cleaner it should work...

Have you managed to clean the house wall again? It should work with a steam cleaner...

I removed most of it with the garden hose. The rest remained; I didn't try anything else. But for us, it was only one spot where the fleece had blown down. It doesn't bother us there.

In many places, the base plaster got damaged just because there was some dirt on the fleece (from dirty shoes). You really have to be careful; you wouldn't believe how much it splashes when it rains hard!

Natural stone wall It depends on which stones and then the labor time. Roughly estimated our costs are 6,000 EUR plus for foundation digging, concrete, walling, excavator hours (serves as a lifting aid from a certain stone size), stones, backfilling soil Possibly inquire and collect nearby at demolitions and earthworks. We have also given away natural stones from the excavation - free of charge. Every stone that is gone does not need to be disposed of for a fee. If worked sandstone remains, it will be sold for money

We received this wall, about 10 m, for 3000 labor cost. We bought the stones from the cemetery administration; they had some from an old wall. 15,- per block, self-pickup. The landscape gardener collected them for us for 200,-. For the work, two men and an excavator operator need two full days. That is 48 man-hours and 16 machine hours.

At 1.4 m, there is something on top. I could imagine that the next 2 rows will take more time. The working time for our 2 rows was similar.

Hello Silent

Buy yourself some stakes, the yellow formwork panels from the hardware store, and some mesh tarpaulin. You pound the stakes into the ground. Distance as wide as the formwork panels are. Then you lay the mesh tarpaulin on the ground and pull it over the earth. The formwork panels go between the stakes and the earth, then the mesh tarpaulin over the formwork panels and fix it there. Best with battens and some screws. Possibly support the stakes with battens. That will hold for a year or two.

Steven