The most ideal distance to place your fence is at a minimum of 3 feet behind your wall.
Fence on top of retaining wall.
You ll need an engineer to analyze your wall before any installation can be done.
Their denseness would remain in the winter since they won t lose their leaves.
The retaining wall accommodates the elevation difference and the fence offers the privacy.
Some communities allow horizontal steel cables as guard railings at the top of retaining walls as we discuss below.
Fences can be placed closer to the wall than 3 feet but a design professional should be involved with the project to ensure that the top of the retaining wall can withstand the forces from the fence.
This is an 8 0 tan vinyl privacy fence atop a short versa lok retaining wall.
It is easily the most stable and strongest way to install a fence on top of a wall.
If you want your fence placed closer.
Evergreen shrubs would be best.
The top rail for a guardrail can be a 2x6 either flat or on edge.
This is an 8 0 tan vinyl privacy fence atop a short versa lok retaining wall.
We recommend core drilling over all other methods.
If your wall has a height of 200 400mm then the fence can be built directly on top of the wall.
Use the longest pieces you can find a continuous railing is best.
Installing fences in different ways 3 feet behind the block.
Top of the wall.
The trick is to come up with the right shrubs.
As a fence gets closer to the wall the excess strength from the geogrid reinforcement is required to.
All of our sequence fence posts which are used for wall top fencing are made from western red cedar and have a 20mm galvanized threaded bar inserted in the bottom that protrudes 30cm.
Custom wood privacy on brick retaining wall.
If you don t want to install a fence you really can design a planting bed at the top of the wall that will work.
Aluminum fence there are three different methods of installing an aluminum fence on top of a wall.
It is common to install a fence behind the retaining wall block.
Your most important consideration when building a fence on top of a retaining wall or garden wall is how well your fence posts are fixed to the wall.
A hole is drilled in the top of the wall using a 24mm masonry drill bit and 2 part resin anchor glue is pumped into the hole.
The neighbor on the left side has a drastically lower yard elevation than the neighbor on the right.
The retaining wall accommodates the elevation difference and the fence offers the privacy.