This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Our finished gabion wall with letterbox gets lots of approving comments from visitors & passers by.

You can also buy more expensive decorative rock for the outside and fill the interior of the gabion cage with ballast or broken bricks.

It all started with the letterbox. We have a lot of on-site sandstone which we broke up into smaller pieces with the Ozito demolition hammer. The cages are filled with rocks and other construction materials and arranged to form the gabion wall.
A pleasing and unexpected result is the new habitat for skinks and lizards. Hope your wall works out well. I didn’t want to build a retaining wall, just a small free-standing gravity gabion wall about 1m (3 ft) high. Choose stone such as granite, basalt, blue stone etc in 100-200mm. Hello: This tutorial offers 5 steps on how to build a gabion wall, especially handy tips for starting your first gabion project. We have supplied some projects in coastal regions with this mix. Learn how your comment data is processed. Check the facing panels regularly to ensure they are straight and even. I reckon if I sprayed it with Galmet and could support it while filling and putting the top on, it would go another fifty years. It gives the best performance of any of the metals apart from stainless steel. There are 2 types of gabions being woven wire baskets or weld mesh cages. My crew and I have been building custom walls, water features, letterboxes, garden lights and even furniture, inspired some years ago by your article. The only possibility I can think of would be to use it as your bottom and top layers and buy some rigid mesh panels for the sides, although the top would not look smooth then, but probably a bit lumpy/undulating.

Larger gabion retaining wall solutions use thicker gabions at the base to spread the foundation load and improve resistance to overturning and sliding. Free drainage allows water to pass through he structure rather than building up behind it.

The type of stone you choose is largely a matter of preference, though often will be dictated by availability, budget and the desired ‘look’ of the wall once completed.

All Rights Reserved. The wall drainage must be inspected and maintained (rodded/jetted) annually and after particularly heavy rainfall events. Before we packed the second layer, we attached our new brushed steel letterbox in place using two timber backing pieces. I decided I wanted something really, really solid, so a wall-style box fitted to gabion wall at postie-preferred height became my plan. Total cost – $200. Its not rigid like gabion wire but do you think there would be a way to support it while filling it as a gabion to make small walls around new gate posts and letter box. Using a demolition hammer to cut a trench for the front edging. Attaching the new steel wall-mounted letterbox to the top gabion wall cage with timber backing pieces, Letterbox attached to the upper gabion wall cage which is now ready to fill with sandstone pieces. The filter fabric ensures the gabion remains free draining, and eliminates hydro-static pressure behind the retaining wall.

Anyone tried this? Gabions are wire mesh containers that are filled with rock to crate a gravity walls. I also looked through the broken rocks to pick out those with a flatter face so I could put them on the presentation street side. Great post – thank you very much for the detailed info, photos and tips!! Hi Saad – GardenDrum is an information website and doesn’t supply any products. The building For advice or assistance with the design of an economical gabion wall, please email our engineer@gabion1.com.au Sourcing the galvanised gabion mesh cage. Pack the cages in a sweeping sequence spreading stone from one cage to the next. Steel wire baskets (cages) are produced in factory with 90x90x90 cm steel wire panel sides and the mesh size is 7.62 x 7.62 cm. We bought the gabion mesh cages in kit form from Permathene in Sydney. (You’re the 1st person I’ve ever hear use “tessellation” in a description of their garden). When constructing gabion retaining walls in strongly acidic soils(PH over 5.5), the soil and the corrosive groundwater must be separated from the gabion structure by using geotextile fabrics and a properly designed drainage system. Hi Morgane – the letterbox is made by an Australian company called Sandleford and costs about $100AUD. Hi Jessie – GardenDrum is an information site only, and doesn’t manufacture or sell any products. Depending on the wall height, a 50mm to 100mm layer of compacted 20mm road base, crushed from either blue metal or basalt rock is all that is required for most gabion walls.

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I found I needed to get down low to check that I’d tessellated the pieces carefully enough that you couldn’t look through to the central blocks, and I made sure to leave some really good looking pieces for the top layer. Lisa and Ian. The cheapest fill would be rock ballast so you could search for that online for a Sydney supplier. Are you a manufacturer of gabion box? Hope this helps! [av_toggle title=’Toggle 1′ tags=”] We worked in layers, using rejected smaller pieces to fill up any voids and to wedge the best rocks against the face of the cage, tessellating them as closely as possible, and then filling in behind them to hold them in place. When the gabion retaining wall is subject to a additional surcharges, from a driveway or other loads, the design will most likely increase the depth of the gabions, to handle the higher expected loads. The gabion manufacturers will be able to give you more accurate advice. According to ImproveNet, a tonne of crushed stone can be purchased for between $27 US and $64, and while stone can be purchased in a variety of sizes, it is wise to check with a local aggregate and stone supplier when budgeting for your project. An engineer’s design will consider design limit states and specify the dimensions of the toe and base for your wall. And the duration of their arrival? We used a hoe to level the pad area on the front boundary.

I interlock things everywhere I go. We started by laying the mesh sheets out flat with the base surrounded by the four sides. The Galfan (Zn95 Al5) is always ex stock. You’re welcome Joe.

Now I’m filling all the gabion cages for our curved gabion wall, tessellation has come to rule my life. Required fields are marked *. Geo fabric will allows water to flow through the gabion structure (no pressure build up behind the wall) however soil particles will be contained. Their gabion cage mesh is coated with Galfan (aluminium 5%, zinc 95%), a longer-lasting material than plain galvanising, and the aluminium in the coating will weather to a lovely grey patina. This will ensure when your building gabion walls they remain perfectly straight and look fantastic when your project is complete. Copyright 2016 GardenDrum AU. Re stones for filling, it depends what look you want. The ‘soil’ here, if you could call it that, is close to the consistency of concrete so we were able to put our gabion wall on what’s there. The design of the drainage system is just as important as the design of the retaining wall.

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