How To Build Hypertufa Retaining Wall?

There are plenty of gardening ornaments that you can do using hypertufa and one of them is a retaining wall for your garden. A hypertufa retaining wall is ideal since they are able to tolerate the extreme winter temperature, for up to -30°C. They are also great looking as they can give your garden a more natural stone visual appeal. Although hypertufas are normally light, various constituents can be included to make them more heavier and tougher for the purpose of creating a retaining wall.

To build a hypertufa retaining wall, you have to alter the basic formula that is regularly used: mix 2 parts Portland cement, 1 1/2 partss peat moss,  2 parts perlite, a little bit of nylon fiber mesh, and 1/2 part coarse sand. The coarse sand will make your hypertufa heavier when compared with the regular and the fiber mesh will strengthen the structural integrity of your creation, so that it is acceptable for a retaining wall.

The subsequent task is to find the mold for the blocks that will be utilized for your retaining wall. You should think about the place where you will be putting your retaining wall so that you will have an idea of the size of the mold that you will need to have. You can use shoe boxes as molds although if you think maybe that they are not suitable, it's possible to produce your own mold using styrene foam used for house insulation, wood, or cardboard. It's also possible to dig block-shaped holes in the ground and cover them with plastic for your mold. Just understand that you will need to have as many molds as possible. You will need loads of blocks for a retaining wall and it takes lots of time in order to cure a hypertufa so it is perhaps a good idea to build all of the needed blocks in a single batch.

After your hypertufa blocks have been entirely cured and are prepared to be installed, you ought to create a mortar mix to hold them together. For that you will need to combine 1 part Portland cement, 2 parts builders sand, ½ part peat moss or black potting soil, ½ part clay soil with clods broken up, acrylic fortifying additive, and water. Then line up a layer of your hypertufa blocks, put on the mortar mix on the top of the layer, and repeat the procedure until you've created the retaining wall.