Hi,
Bear with me,
the land at the side of my house ( slip level 3 story house ) slopes down sharply and therefore i can not park my car there. As a project I wish to level this out by constructing a wall at the bottom of the slope and fillimg with concrete, rubble etc so that i can then park my car on the new level surface. the bottom of the wall will be 1.6 m high, and sloping to zero to counter the slope.
I will need to prevent the car ever going over the edge, which i intend to do by having a double row of bricks about a meter from the edge of the drop ( to choke the wheels if is slipped) and hand railing etc to prevent me slipping off !! the wall wont retain anything as such, only its own weight and the downward force of the car.
I was thinking of constructing a retaining framework of a double block wall tied into substaion footings, and the cavity filled with reinforcing rods and concrete. When this has dried back filling the resultand void with rubble, compacting, and a 30cm top of concrete.
Any views on the validity of this, or ideas in general would be great.
Thanks for your time