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Repair small retaining wall

ed110220 · 2012-02-24 22:07:10

With the recent frosty weather part of the small stone retaining wall next to my front door has collapsed. It is about 25cm high by 50cm wide and made of irregularly shaped stones mortared together. More worryingly, it supports a concrete slab into which an unglazed steel porch is founded and this looks as though it has…

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ed110220 Posts: 1,631 Forumite

10 August 2012 at 9:06PM

Just a quick update to say that the problem is solved.

The other day my dad used a car jack to lift the concrete slab that the front right of the porch is founded in. I was worried it would break, but it worked fine. He then rebuilt the small retaining wall that had collapsed.

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