Poured concrete foundations are an alternative to block or treated wood foundations.
Pouring concrete walls before and after.
The process involves building a form to hold the concrete in place installing reinforcing rods and then pouring the concrete.
To do this you ll need to drive stakes into the ground where you dug the footings.
Before you can start pouring the retaining wall you ll need to build the forms.
It is common practice to pour walls the day after the footings are poured but you re not likely to find a reference that says either you can or can t do this.
After the wall is sized each wall member is checked for adequate strength and steel reinforcing is determined.
One reason this is comparatively safe is that footings are frequently sized to meet local code minimums that are actually oversize when compared with the load that the wall will place on the footing.
One of the most common and telling failures of retaining walls is the inevitable tilting cracking and bowing of brick timber and concrete block retaining walls built by homeowners well meaning builders and landscapers.