Installation Guide
Everything for the do-it-yourself enthusiast
Real-Lite Installation
For Sleeper Size: 1500mmL x 150mmH
Before you start you will need:
- Work Gloves
- Tape Measure
- Quick Set Concrete
- ShovelStar Pickets
- Real-Lite Concrete Sleepers
- Level & String Line
- Post Hold Digger
- Real-Lits Gal Steel Posts
- Planning Sheet
- Weed Mat
- Ag Pipe
- Design and measure your retaining wall length, and using our Planning Sheet calculate the number of posts and sleepers required.
- Prepare the site, clear and level the area leavins 200mm behind the wall for backfilling
- Hammer in Star Pickets at begining and end of the proposed wall setting the star pickets 500mm past each end
- Run a stringline at the top of the propoed wall height and along the bottom, ENSURE IT IS LEVEL
- Mark out location of holes (hold centres 1520mm)
- Dig holes where marked with a minimum 300mm diameter hole
- Hole depth must be the same height of the proposed wall plus 50mm for concrete coverage on bottom of post
- Fill the hole with concrete and place the post in the centre using a level to ensure the post is straight and lines up with top of the string line
- Repeat for remaining holes
- It is reccomended that concrete cures for 24 hours or use rapid set concrete
- Slide Sleepers into place between posts
- Place weed mat against back of wall
- Using 65mm Ag Piper at the back base of the wall, backfill with 20mm gravel to 200mm from top of the wall
- Fill to top of the wall with clay soil
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