How to Build a Retaining Wall | Mitre 10 Easy As DIY 

Exactly how i would have done it but i would have used alot more swearing and beer. The empty bottles go behind the wall, [its called drainage]. Is there a video on how to install that green plastic meshing as a fence? I need some privacy when i walk around naked in my backyard.

This is a genuinely good tutorial. Hard to come by these, deserves more praise.

Stan shops at my local Mitre10, but I was too star struck to talk to him when I saw him there... 😅Instead, I told his wife/partner what an absolute legend he was! I've already done a couple of projects after watching his videos, I've learned new ways to use some of my tools, and I know this one is going to be a godsend on my retaining wall project. Love your work!

Boys down under making it all look easy! Cheers for the tips, I'll be doing my best to recreate this in the UK with equivalent materials.

Thanks mate, your educational videos are very easy to understand the tasks and step by step guidelines, I am building soon my retaining wall I am fully confident now after watching this video, great work..keep it up, if possible can you please create content on decking on concrete slabs backside of home?...many thanks

should have used metalex on those raked cuts you made on the retaining wall boards

Hmmm - we don't have any boundary pigs (1:07). Cheers and thanks for the vid from across the 'detch'. ;-)

I am grateful for hardworking people that take the time to share their experience with home and property maintenance.

Awesome video. I’m in the Georgia mountains and have to replace my railroad tie walls, he convinced me to do it with timber since retaining wall blocks are going to be about $25K.

I’m sending this to Trump for review.

" TOP CLASS " VID CHEERS

Excellent video and presentation, Professional and clean jobsite. One of the best videos I have seen yet and I am a General Contractor. Good job cobber.

I would not place drainage coil on 100mm of Scoria rather lay the coil on the clay with a 1 percent fall then Scoria or drainage metal on top, that way the drainage will actually carry the water away through the coil.

Wait, I've seen this same video before. Is it a re upload?

Beautiful work 💕👍

Need to win the lotto before you can buy cedar in 2022.

The council will never say yes to anything you to do unless you pay them thousands of dollars

What post spacing did you use?

Good stuff mate. Much appreciated from the Adelaide hills. Like your concept.

Great vid. Just one question: How deep should the post holes be?

Did he really just say "easy as" at the end of all this!!

Too hard..check this check that....im buying a pot..

Thanks. Very clear and helpful. Like all your tutorials

What happen to the Geo textile fabric around the PVS pipping?

Safety barrier, council regulations, engineering, drainage, boundaries, Fk it its too complicated.

I love this guy!

Awesome Video!

Sweet as bro

Great video. Thanks

Legend fella

Great video, as usual. Yours are the best.

Top video , good work mate

So many experts in the comments lol why did you look this up if you know already

ma si , un bel getto di cemento direttamente sul legno , cosi in meno di 5 anni marcisce Bastava riempire le pbuche di sabbia e ciotoli e si otteneva stesso risultato , con un affetto drenante , permettendo al legno di non marcire...

can you do carpet laying video?

Thanks for doing this video

I might have missed the link provided in description but to confirm are post at 1.2 meter center?

Cool

I am wondering the post is fixed using cement, next time when you replace the post, how do you pull the post out?

Should the section of the post embedded in the concrete be painted with any sort of protective coating?

Very helpful. Thank you

That video is pretty helpful. My retaining wall is leaning over. I’m gonna put some drainage behind it just like in your video.

Well done! Wish I had the skills to confidently do this!

Oh yeah.. easy! Hahaha

awesome explanations

True professional thanks for the useful hints

Nah its the redbands for me

is this expensive

Wow, great advice boys!

'Easy as'.

Nice Bro 🇲🇦✌

Can we put the posts at the back instead and get the nice looking flat face to the front?

Looks so easy till you try it 🤠

Nice job. Cheers kiwi

Maaan he's good.

The Mitre 10 instructions on PDF and video omit how far apart the post holes should be. Placemakers suggest 1.2 M apart and ITM suggest 1.3 M apart

How do we lean the post to 10 degrees?

His outfit is so Australian lol Thanks for the video!

Very good tutorial.

This was really helpful, thank you!

Why can’t you pronounce the word important?

Yankee here. Millimeters make me blood red mad! 🍻

It looks nice and all that, but the lumber will rot where it meets the soil. An old neighbor with a big, beautifull garden told me that. I would have used brackets in the concrete with solid screws or bolts so that I could remove the post and put in new ones when they start to rot. The lumber will not rot under ground, it will not rot above ground, but it will rot in the transition between the soil and 'the air'. Eventually it will also rot both under ground and above ground, but that will take much longer time. To protect the concrete you could also have poured it into plastic sewage pipes or something similar with the right dimension.

Won't the rain rots the post at the concret junction ?