Did anyone use Gabions in their garden? or anywhere else for that matter?
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I am thinking of using them together with geotextile fabric to build a mechanically-stabilised earth (MSE) retaining wall. My garden is so inaccesible to any roads that I would have no hope of getting in enough rock to fill them up.
I had a quick look on the net and couldn't find many examples of them being used domestically.
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I helped put some in as sea defences where the property line of a relatives garden was under threat. The idea was to semi-bury them to counter some local erosion. They worked like a treat and I would happily use them again. Size was 2x1x1m, laid in one layer, wired together.
While they can be machine filled, I would recommend hand placement of at least the front face and top. A few cheap skates will fill the core with smaller stones & junk almost down to gravel, but I wouldn't put anything in that would fall through the mesh.
Verdict: Can look great if carefully filled with semi-regular stones, but can look awful if grab filled with irregular machine crushings. Easier than laying blocks, but don't underestimate the effort in filling a dozen or so 2m3 boxes.
15 years on ours are looking good with galvanising still in tact, even with seawater washing.
I asked questions about a retaining wall and wondered about sleeper walls, Cormic strongly recommended gambions. In the event I used a hard landscape firm who used sleepers slotted into girders. As usual Cormic was correct, three years later and I have outward movement. :-(
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