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Lawn edging as small retaining wall?
Goughtj
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Hello.
I'd like some advice on some lawn levelling I'm doing. I have a sloped garden that backs onto a border full of plants, then 6ft brick wall (with deep foundations and level ground on either side). I'd like to level the top of the lawn, so would mean bringing the top section down around 15cm over a distance of around 2m.
I'm looking to keep the cost down as much as possible. My plan was to use a turf cutter to lift the current turf, and then take out the soil/level across the space, put the turf back and use lawn edging strips along the back border to compensate for the now raised border.
Would this work and be enough?
I'd like some advice on some lawn levelling I'm doing. I have a sloped garden that backs onto a border full of plants, then 6ft brick wall (with deep foundations and level ground on either side). I'd like to level the top of the lawn, so would mean bringing the top section down around 15cm over a distance of around 2m.
I'm looking to keep the cost down as much as possible. My plan was to use a turf cutter to lift the current turf, and then take out the soil/level across the space, put the turf back and use lawn edging strips along the back border to compensate for the now raised border.
Would this work and be enough?
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If you mean you want the edging to contain the border [I think that's what you mean!] then no, I don't think it would be very good, and I also don't think it'll look very good. If you mean the metal edging, it's really quite flimsy too, so it wouldn't be particularly sturdy, especially if the border's quite deep.
It would be better to use a brick or stone edge to match your wall. It's always better to keep any hard landscaping to just a few choices too. 15cm/6 inches isn't too big a height, and it would be a fairly easy DIY job to put that in, especially with the ready mix mortars/concrete etc that are available now
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's around a 5 degree slope I'll be flattening. I'd really rather not use bricks and mortar - to keep cost down and as it's a garden for children to play in.
My view was that it's only a small degree change and there's a brick wall acting as a retaining wall already, so the lawn edging strip for the border is only minimally structural.
The wall goes quite deep, so I assume this would be structurally sound?
A line of vertically set railway sleepers or scaffolding boards would do the retaining soil job. You may be able get some cheap secondhand or even for nothing on freecycle or similar sites. Most proprietary border edging like that log roll stuff would be too flimsy to hold back the newly raised border soil, the metal everedge type edging is not high enough and is, in any case, designed to be set flush with the soil level of the grass.
So could I use something like this above, with these brackets-
Would that be secure enough?
Thanks