Garden Wall Ideas
Low Cost Gabions for garden walls
If you’re looking to build decorative rock walls, or to have flat areas for patios and lawns, gabions are the low cost diy rock wall for your garden. Building a rock wall with gabions keeps the rock wall cost down.
Below are some great landscaping rock wall ideas for your garden.
When your decorative rock walls are being used as a retaining walls, council approval is often required, if they are over a specified height, next to a boundary, or supporting a driveway, car park or other structures. Make sure to check your local authority’s regulations prior to starting work on your retaining wall. Gabion rock walls are a cheap diy freindly alternative to dry stone walls and tradional cement mortared rock walls and they generally don't require a concrete foundation
The design of all rock walls needs to consider, the soil profile, soil type, (clay, gravel or sand). Rock walls are heavy, and apart from gabion rock walls, nearly all other types of garden rock walls need a reinforced concrete foundation. Site access, the look of the rock wall, material and labour costs, all influence the final rock wall cost. Larger decoartive landscape rocks and boulders can be quite expensive per tonne, gabions are able to use cheaper rocks thereby reducing the rock wall cost.
Home owners, weekend builders, and diy specialists can build most gabion rock walls depending on size over several weekends. For larger gabion rock walls or curved rock walls, you can get a quotes from, local landscapers, small earthworks contractors and specialist stone masons, who have both the machinery and experience to build the larger curved rock walls quickly for you. Experienced contractors can also assist with the rock wall design ideas needed for your garden project.
