sleepers

Anybody have any thoughts on using a concrete repair spur post in place a wooden post altogether to secure wooden sleepers for a retaining wall. My plan was to use them to hold back some earth and I would place them behind the sleepers so I would have to drill into the concrete post fix the...

Hi, After deciding I can’t afford to pay someone to replace my deck with a raised patio I’m thinking of doing it myself. I currently have a deck (previous owner install) which spans the entire width of the conservatory ~8.5m and goes out 2.4m, steps down to another deck (same width) which goes...

Hi all, I am a gardener, with some landscaping experience, and I have a client who would like a small terraced area part way up their steep garden so as to give easier access for gardening. I terms of design, I think a curved upright sleeper retaining wall would be best, however I have never...

Hi all, I'm new here but have used the forum topics for reference a lot, so know there is a lot of great expertise around. Would appreciate some specific advice for my problem. I'm creating a horizontal sleeper retaining wall (sleepers on narrow end) about a foot or so in front of the bank...

I am going to start my garden ready for the summer, I am looking at building a sleeper retainer step up (2 sleepers high) the sleepers will be dug in 50mm so I will have to infill around 305mm. (Leaving thickness for artificial grass 30mm and a 15mm base layer of sand to assist drainage) Should...

I’m almost ready to start setting my vertical garden sleepers but need some clarity on the concrete mix to use. Some say a 1:2:3 mix of cement, sand and aggregate is the way to go but I’m wondering if a 1:4 mix of cement and sharp sand will do the job? The latter just seems more straightforward...

Not sure what I’m doing to be honest. Need advice if possible. Building a retaining wall out of reclaimed sleepers. Six upright in holes 450mm by 350mm and 1m deep. Dug a 200mm footing and will go about 5 sleepers high, bolted to the uprights, just over 1m from the bottom of my footing. For...

Hello community, This is my first post here and I would really appreciate some help. I'm building a retaining wall, 6 rows high. The sleepers are stacked on their wide side. I managed to stack 5 rows quite nicely and now, before putting the last row, I want to insert some oak dowels going all...

Hello everyone! Looking for some advice I am laying sleepers in my garden 200mmx100mm to create a boarder between my garden and garden bed on either side of the garden. I have the sleepers and plan to bolt them together using a screw plate. In regards to laying them in the floor what do you...

Hi all! I’m building a retaining wall out of 100x200x2400 pressure treated pine sleepers. The wall will have two tiers with a 400mm gap between them, each tier will be 700m high with vertical sleepers used as posts. Each post reaches 700mm underground. The posts are bedded in with several bags...

So I recently bought my first house, which has a rather steeply sloping garden (approx. 1 in 12). The slope falls away from the house. We’re looking at building a patio at the bottom of the garden (garden is East facing and the bottom gets most of the sun) which I’ll also be standing a good...

Hello, we have been going round in circles deciding what to do with our front porch area and I think we have finally finally decided what do to. We have a raised patio outside our font door which needs redoing. It has a concrete slab underneath Im thinking to edge the slab with sleepers, we...

I have created a retaining wall using railway sleepers (this should level off the gradient of the garden). After cementing the bottom layer to the ground I've realized that there is a gap as the next layer is placed on top. This is my first project doing something like this so please excuse...

Hi. I am building some raised beds using pressure treated 100mm deep sleepers. I am looking for 150mm screws to secure each row of sleepers into the row below, but want a countersunk screw so the head does not foul the next row which will go on top. Was looking at 150mm countersunk goldscrews...