Capping it Off
This weekend was spent hauling away the old retaining wall debris to the Wauwatosa Recycling Center (a.k.a. "the dump") and setting the capstones in place on the new retaining wall.
The hauling away was accomplished on Saturday, cold and drizzly though it was.
We managed to cart it all away in two trips, and fill the bed of the truck with topsoil from the recycling center on each trip after dumping the railroad ties. As you can see from photos like this,
we were in need of dirt to level things out because a lot of it had tumbled into our neighbor's yard over the years, plus our new wall is a bit taller than the old one.
On Sunday we set the capstones in place.
It was a fairly quick and easy process compared to the rest of the wall. Kurt & I would load up the wheelbarrow, he would push it over to the wall, he would glue, I would hand him blocks and he would set them in place. We used PL Landscape Block Adhesive, purchased from Menard's, to glue the capstones in place and allowed them to sit undisturbed for 24 hours before doing any walking on top of the wall.
The hauling away was accomplished on Saturday, cold and drizzly though it was.
We managed to cart it all away in two trips, and fill the bed of the truck with topsoil from the recycling center on each trip after dumping the railroad ties. As you can see from photos like this,
we were in need of dirt to level things out because a lot of it had tumbled into our neighbor's yard over the years, plus our new wall is a bit taller than the old one.
On Sunday we set the capstones in place.
It was a fairly quick and easy process compared to the rest of the wall. Kurt & I would load up the wheelbarrow, he would push it over to the wall, he would glue, I would hand him blocks and he would set them in place. We used PL Landscape Block Adhesive, purchased from Menard's, to glue the capstones in place and allowed them to sit undisturbed for 24 hours before doing any walking on top of the wall.
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