My parents have a small retaining wall on the side boundary of their new property. It is about 4 sleepers high, the bottom sleeper is mostly in the ground though, so the wall is about 70cm high that we can see, with the soil level about 20cm below the top sleeper on the neighbours side of the fence (fence is attached to sleeper wall and sits above it).
In a few places there is some rot in a sleeper - not all of them, just 1 here and there, a couple are quite bad and crumble when poked. The house is 7 years old. This is our first experience with retaining walls, so I am not sure what is the 'norm' for wooden walls that have some rot - because the walls seem to be everywhere now other people must have had experiences like this?
Is there any way to patch these few sleepers given that it is such a small wall (and ultimately if it falls in it hurts the neighbours more than us - and they don't want to know about it and won't contribute to repairs)? We have had quotes to put a link-block wall or a concrete sleeper wall in front of it which range from $15K to $25K...but given the small yard we are not wanting to loose any more land, nor pay that sort of money to effectively help the neighbours! Can we put a few more uprights in to hold it back, or replace a few of the sleepers?
Any advice/ideas? Any recommendations of good people that will do this work - Brisbane northside?
In a few places there is some rot in a sleeper - not all of them, just 1 here and there, a couple are quite bad and crumble when poked. The house is 7 years old. This is our first experience with retaining walls, so I am not sure what is the 'norm' for wooden walls that have some rot - because the walls seem to be everywhere now other people must have had experiences like this?
Is there any way to patch these few sleepers given that it is such a small wall (and ultimately if it falls in it hurts the neighbours more than us - and they don't want to know about it and won't contribute to repairs)? We have had quotes to put a link-block wall or a concrete sleeper wall in front of it which range from $15K to $25K...but given the small yard we are not wanting to loose any more land, nor pay that sort of money to effectively help the neighbours! Can we put a few more uprights in to hold it back, or replace a few of the sleepers?
Any advice/ideas? Any recommendations of good people that will do this work - Brisbane northside?