Stone Wall Design IdeasLow Cost Gabions for your garden walls
If you’re looking to build decorative stone walls, to have flat areas for patios and lawns, gabions are a low cost diy stone wall for your garden. Building a stone wall with gabions keeps the stone wall cost down.
Below are some great landscaping stone wall ideas for your garden.
When your decorative stone 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 stone walls are a cheap diy freindly alternative to dry stone walls and tradional cement mortared stone walls and they generally don't require a concrete foundation
Gabion stone walls are often used low cost gravity retaining wall, that do not require a expensive concrete foundations or deep footing piles. This gabion stone wall has a attractive night lighting and is a feature of the garden, while providing retaining. This decorative stone wall provides a simple and cost effective limestone wall Gabion Retaining Walls
This rounded river stone wall is a decorative cladding in front of the curved concrete reinforced masonry block retaining wall. This stone wall costs far more than a gabion stone wall as it requires an extra strong foundation to allow for both the weight of the stone cladding and the concrete blocks. The architect has combined with the engineer to design wall that is both structural and aesthetic for this garden stone wall design.
Gabion stone walls are a quick and easy to build, that do not require a concrete footings. This gabion stone wall steps back up the sloping site and bench seat built into the wall. Because the gabions are porous, it is virtually impossible for hydrostatic pressure overturn the retaining wall. When you have cheap, low cost local stone, gabion stone wall design ideas are very inexpensive. Gabion Retaining Walls
This is a great idea for a garden stone wall. The use of corten steel in a landscape stone wall give a fantastic visual contrast to this letter box. That design's clean lines and simplicity are part of what makes this gabion stone wall so effective.
By combining raw sand stone uncut blocks, with cut stone, the builder of these stone walls has brought together two earthy elements. This landscape design sometimes requires an experienced stone mason, that can build a stone wall like this and some careful planning.
Stone retaining walls very strong and with an engineers design can retain 5.0m or taller, they can be used for supporting driveways and carparks. Gabion stone walls are able to cope with a small amount of settlement, without cracking or losing thier ability to retain the sloping ground the gabion stone walls are supporting. Gabion Retaining Walls
Gabion retaining walls are able to retain a variety of soil types, including clays, silty clays and sand, as well as gravels. All retaining wall design carried out by engineers including gabion stone walls, is based on a site inspection of the soil, and site contours to establish the soils properties and strengths.Gabion Retaining Walls
Gabion baskets can be filled with recycled brick, concrete and other hard durable materials. This gabion wall was an exhibit in the Chelsea Flower Show. Gabion baskets come in a variety of sizes, and it is also possible to build a curved stone wall. The gabion baskets are purchsed online are delivered in a flat pack kitset direct to you. The gabion is easy for the DIYer to build, and no spercial tools are required to assemble a gabion stone wall. Gabion Stone Walls
A small gabion basket supports the granite table top on this backyard deck. The retaining wall has steps with basalt treads and is made possible with the variety of gabion baskets sizes that can be purchased online. Low cost gabion stone walls are quick and simple to build. No need to hire a specialist stone mason to get a designer stone wall.Gabion Retaining Walls
Mortared stone retaining walls, need to built on an reinforced concrete footing, as the wall itself has no steel reinforcing inside it, to hold it together It may not be possible to build a mortared stone wall on poor load bearing organic soils such as peat. A first class drainage system required behind this type of stone wall, to prevent hydrostatic pressure damaging and cracking the stone wall. These stone walls are very decorative in the garden, with this construction method you can also build curved stone walls.
This home owner has used natural timber and stone to create a gabion stone wall with a built in timber seat. The design uses different sized gabions building a garden stone wall that is both structural and attractive. The welded wire mesh provides nice clean straight lines surrounding a random stone wall .Gabion Retaining Walls
Designed to hold back soil, this retaining wall employs big stones or boulders that were moved into position with heavy equipment and because of the lifting equipment needed these are not really a DIY stone walls. Despite the size of the stones, the builder has delicately sloped the curved stone wall to help resist outward soil pressure.
The design of all stone walls needs to consider, the soil profile, soil type, (clay, gravel or sand). Stone walls are heavy, and apart from gabion stone walls, nearly all other types of garden stone walls need a reinforced concrete foundation. Site access, the look of the stone wall, material and labour costs, all influence the final stone wall cost. Larger decoartive landscape stones and boulders can be quite expensive per tonne, gabions are able to use cheaper stones thereby reducing the stone wall cost.
Home owners, weekend builders, and diy specialists can build most gabion stone walls depending on size over several weekends. For larger gabion stone walls or curved stone 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 stone walls quickly for you. Experienced contractors can also assist with the stone wall design ideas needed for your garden project.
