Build the footing and insert rebar into the wet concrete at intervals corresponding to the cores in the blocks.
How to build a concrete block garden wall.
Once the first row is installed pack native soil to grade level on both sides of this course to anchor the wall in place.
Push the first block into the mortar until it s 3 8 inch above the footing.
Install the first course of blocks using a taut string line to establish a straight row.
Creating the block garden wall.
Lay out the wall and excavate the slope and the footing trench.
Corners should be interlocked.
Use running bond pattern to stagger ends.
Stack remaining blocks dry without mortar.
Take up the block and spread mortar on the footing.
Add liquid cement color to surface bonding cement and mix so that it hangs on trowel held at 90 degree angle.
Make sure joints between cap blocks are filled with mortar and smoothed with the finishing tool.
Mark all the edges of the course.
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The tops of cement block walls are typically capped by applying a layer of mortar embedding metal reinforcement strips then covering the wall with solid concrete cap blocks.
Level to level blocks lengthwise and a torpedo level to level the front to back.
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