advise on building a wall,

[growforest]

Bridget. Love it.

[mendiplogs]

Bridget. Love it.

 

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[muttley9050]

Cheap way is hollow blocks, steel and concrete. Problem is you can't put a decent steel structure in them. Stronger is two 9" skins, 100mm dense concretes laid on backs. 3" cavity with ties. Put your steel work in before building second skin and fix it to cavity ties. When finished wait 3 days and concrete cavity. That won't move, just hope you don't need to demolish it one day.

Can reduce thickness of the two skins if you want. And make sure you close the cavity properly on the ends.

Edited April 10, 2015 by muttley9050

[matelot]

is this wall 9 foot high or wide?

 

tbh, if the reinforcement isn't connected into the foundation it's likely someone could still push/pull the wall over with a pickup...

 

perhaps you should get a couple of steel "H" beams and set them vertically in concrete. Then build a wall in the flanges of the "H" beams.

 

What is the wall for?

[kimtree]

form it up with form ply with a decent footing and lots of reo and pour a solid concrete wall.

just make sure it is well shored up and supported during the pour as concrete will find any weak spots otherwise

[codlasher]

As kimtree says, form it up. Then you can play with the final finish too. If you put shapes on the inside they will come out just like a jelly mold or sand blast the outer surface to expose the coloured aggregate you may consider using. Paint a mural. Ideas from VNA Magazine; verynearlyalmost.com

codlasher