Concrete Sleeper Retaining Walls In Adelaide Are Cheap.

Landscaping and retaining walls often go together. When looking at retaining large amounts of earth within a formal garden setting, concrete will last a lifetime and longer. Sleepers can be decorative as well as supplying the required strength to make sure the earth being held back doesn’t move. With a choice of colours and patterns, railway sleepers made from concrete have become increasingly popular with residents across Adelaide, especially when levelling a back garden area to create a better usable space.

Concrete sleeper retaining walls Adelaide retaining wall company Visual Landscape Gardening build are made by inserting 2 metre long concrete sleepers between galvanised ‘C’ channel, or ‘C’ and ‘I’ channel steel beams, if there are two or more side by side, that have been concreted into the ground to a depth of the height of the retaining wall.

Once quite unattractive to look at, concrete sleepers are now used as a feature in Adelaide gardens, with a variety of colours and ‘faces’ to suit your garden’s theme.

Popular Concrete Sleeper Patterns & Colours

Adelaide concrete sleepers used for retaining walls are typically 2,000mm long, 200mm high and either 80mm or 100mm thick, depending on the height required to be retained.
A Concrete sleeper retaining wall 1 metre high would therefore require 5 concrete sleepers stacked on top of each other.

Behind the retaining wall should be free draining sand or quarry rubble with an agricultural drain at the base to collect and dispose of water to your storm water pipe.

Concrete sleeper retaining walls are popular with people looking to create formal low maintenance gardens, however concrete sleepers are just one of the retaining walls Adelaide homeowners can choose from.