I 100% agree with you. I don't have a gym membership. I have close to an acre of land that I have been making a park like garden. That is enough exercise for me. Lost a lot of weight doing this. I finally lost that C0VID fat. lol.
Everyone larping as construction workers at the gym, while in the real world we have a shortage of actual construction workers. So many things don't make sense.
@BadHomeowner I still have to find some people to do things like that. Bc I dont have knowledge and scared to do certain things like anything with electrical.
I just put in a small cobble wall / 3 stones high (raised planter bed) and am planning another larger one 2.5 ft tall. Half surround, around a circular bluestone fire pit patio I’m building. Takes some patience with the unevenness of the cobbles, but the look is A+ IMO. Really enjoyed this video!
Nice. I subscribed a while back for the well digging but you just dropped this cobblestone wall video right as I was about start my own stone wall project. Good Timing.
Total cost was about $1200, about $1000 of that was 2 pallets of cobblestones, and the rest was gravel and the PVC pipe. Which is pretty good because a bricklayer wanted $8,000 to build it!
@@BadHomeowner Thanks! Yeah that's great savings. I've been thinking about building two walls that are double the height of yours. The estimates I've gotten have been astronomical.
Cool let me know how it goes. For any higher than 3 rows, I'd probably make it double-width which means you'll need twice as many stones. Or have some kind of cinderblock foundation underneath to stabilize everything. I probably could have done 4 rows but wouldn't go any higher without doubling up
Great looking work! - all I can add as a drive-by UA-camr is look for gravel at your local rock yard and compare to the price-per-bag at HD / Lowe's / etc. - I'm saying this because I bought an ass of rock and didn't realize it was a 1/4 of the price at my yard down the street.
Yea if you need more than like 40-50 or so bags of gravel, definitely cheaper and easier to get it from a materials yard. But in typical bad homeowner fashion, I didn't do any calculations of how much gravel I needed, so I just bought bags until I was done. I think I used ~25 bags here.
I like the design and it looks awesome compared to what was there before. However, you will find that your drain pipe doesn't collect much moisture and that the slits in the front wall at the bottom will drain much more until they get clogged with dirt. Unless you put a 2nd set of holes on the bottom of the pipe that we didn't see, the water behind the wall will have to build up to the top of the drain pipe to be able to even get into your drain pipe. Your wall looks good, i would be filling all of the vertical cracks other than the bottom layer ones with mortar to stick those cobbles together as much as possible.
I’m not a fan of the grass instead of a more low maintenance and drought-resistance lawn choice, and really would have loved to see what the garden would look like, but still a good video 👍
I reserved that space in front where the mulch is for a planting bed. We've actually tried going non-grass a few years back but it just doesn't work well in my area. Strong grass is the only thing here that can outcompete the invasive species.
@@1ray917 huh? I live in a house. With a nice front garden. No HOA. But even the guy who made the video literally said right above your comment that he’s planting a garden there lmao. Perhaps you’re the one who should go outside or at least talk to different people as the world isn’t all the exact same as in your strange bubble.
I'm not sure where you live, but It will be interesting to come back to this in a few years and see how it's holding up. I've always heard mortared-together walls don't survive freeze-thaw cycles for more than a few years, since moisture inevitably gets into the cracks. I would also imagine you'd need a proper footing to prevent soil heaving. Where I live, that means going down 42 inches!
I did this project almost exactly, with the exception of the backfill - just a 3 block wall around a rose garden. Probably 20 linear feet, but 3 sides total 5/10/5 feet. 10 years in and there's 1 cracked section (on a short side no less). I'm in upstate NY, so plenty of freeze thaw. Admittedly, there's no dirt freezing behind the wall, only underneath, but it's otherwise the same structure. I really do like the look of granite cobbles.
A cobblestone wall? I've never seen one before. All street curbing in my area is granite blocks. I just had the end of my driveway paved with granite block. Never seen a wall though. Pretty thin for a wall. I hope it stands the test of time. I would have incorporated some geogrid atop the prenultimate row. Tie that wall into the hill.
How’s the drilled PVC doing with drainage? When I worked in landscaping we always did corrugated pipe with French drains, but honestly that looks pretty efficient too.
I could only find corrugated in 4 inches, and I wanted something slightly smaller so that's why I went with 3in PVC. (And I don't think I need 4in diameter here). The main reason for corrugated is that it's a cheap way to get structural stability from a very thin material -- that's mainly what the folds are for. But as far as I can tell, there's little/no difference in drainage.
Was there any reason to doing the vertical joints after rather than during. Seems like typically they are done during the placements of the stone for better adherence. I get leaving a few open as well for drainage but wondering the thought process on it.
mainly because you end up adjusting them quite a lot, and all the joints are different sizes. so I found it better to lay down a bed and then mortar the vertical joints later
@@PhillTheGreat funny how you can always tell who has never built anything in their life by the comments they leave on UA-cam videos of people actually doing things
I dont know why he did not cut the top stones that was too long with a 10€ diamond blade, and faced it a bit with a hammer, instead of rotating it. The overall finish did not look to bad, granite is a good choise
Technically true, but i still don't want them pulling apart from movement or freezing water or roots from a tree or who knows what. I'm happy to invest 5 minutes to avoid a potential 6 hour project later.
ok find one photo of a retaining wall made out of real granite cobblestones and paste the link so that the whole class can benefit from your great insight
seems hes never used stone and mortar before, because he would know the 2 dont mix. this isnt going to last very long, mortar is made for man made stone, because like the man made stuff it doesnt give. because mortar cant take movement, like natural stone and retaining walls will. so breaking starts as soon as it dries.
@@BadHomeowner well since what they used was lime mortar back then. it allowed some movement. todays mortar in a bag sets rigged, there is the difference, its like log cabin, people tried using mortar to replace mud. well that didnt work either it feel out or rotted the wood, you use old school material. even today you have to use old school supplies. by the way. if you inspect old school foundation blocks they didnt use the old mortar, it doesnt work or last with contact with the ground, the old mortar only worked above grade, in case you wanted to know how it was use properly. ever noticed that the romans. who invented concrete, used only man made stones with it. they knew better thousands of years ago,
My grandfather was a bricklayer and almost 50 years ago built a stone and mortar wall at my childhood home using stone found on the property. The wall is still standing perfectly today, no issues.
Adding hydrated lime to your mix will help with workability, strength and water penetration (frost resistance) which is especially good, although no vital when working with stone as opposed to man-made materials.
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I 100% agree with you. I don't have a gym membership. I have close to an acre of land that I have been making a park like garden. That is enough exercise for me. Lost a lot of weight doing this. I finally lost that C0VID fat. lol.
Everyone larping as construction workers at the gym, while in the real world we have a shortage of actual construction workers. So many things don't make sense.
@BadHomeowner I still have to find some people to do things like that. Bc I dont have knowledge and scared to do certain things like anything with electrical.
I just put in a small cobble wall / 3 stones high (raised planter bed) and am planning another larger one 2.5 ft tall. Half surround, around a circular bluestone fire pit patio I’m building. Takes some patience with the unevenness of the cobbles, but the look is A+ IMO. Really enjoyed this video!
cool! Yeah takes some time to see the unevenness as a feature and not a bug
Nice. I subscribed a while back for the well digging but you just dropped this cobblestone wall video right as I was about start my own stone wall project. Good Timing.
ha nice! on the same wavelength
Really enjoyed the video! How many cobblestones did you end up using? and if you dont mind me asking what was the total cost of the project?
Total cost was about $1200, about $1000 of that was 2 pallets of cobblestones, and the rest was gravel and the PVC pipe. Which is pretty good because a bricklayer wanted $8,000 to build it!
@@BadHomeowner Thanks! Yeah that's great savings. I've been thinking about building two walls that are double the height of yours. The estimates I've gotten have been astronomical.
Cool let me know how it goes. For any higher than 3 rows, I'd probably make it double-width which means you'll need twice as many stones. Or have some kind of cinderblock foundation underneath to stabilize everything. I probably could have done 4 rows but wouldn't go any higher without doubling up
This is awesome - looks good - nice work
thanks!
Great looking work! - all I can add as a drive-by UA-camr is look for gravel at your local rock yard and compare to the price-per-bag at HD / Lowe's / etc. - I'm saying this because I bought an ass of rock and didn't realize it was a 1/4 of the price at my yard down the street.
Yea if you need more than like 40-50 or so bags of gravel, definitely cheaper and easier to get it from a materials yard. But in typical bad homeowner fashion, I didn't do any calculations of how much gravel I needed, so I just bought bags until I was done. I think I used ~25 bags here.
looks awesome! keep it up
thanks!
I like the design and it looks awesome compared to what was there before. However, you will find that your drain pipe doesn't collect much moisture and that the slits in the front wall at the bottom will drain much more until they get clogged with dirt. Unless you put a 2nd set of holes on the bottom of the pipe that we didn't see, the water behind the wall will have to build up to the top of the drain pipe to be able to even get into your drain pipe. Your wall looks good, i would be filling all of the vertical cracks other than the bottom layer ones with mortar to stick those cobbles together as much as possible.
Yea I didn't film myself drilling every hole, but I drilled many more holes all over the pipe
I love the gym comment. Keep it funny and interesting. Just subscribed.
I’m not a fan of the grass instead of a more low maintenance and drought-resistance lawn choice, and really would have loved to see what the garden would look like, but still a good video 👍
I reserved that space in front where the mulch is for a planting bed. We've actually tried going non-grass a few years back but it just doesn't work well in my area. Strong grass is the only thing here that can outcompete the invasive species.
Just say you don’t go outside. Most hoas don’t allow a garden in the FRONT YARD 😂😂 idk what magic world you live in. But you can have one in the back
@@1ray917 huh? I live in a house. With a nice front garden. No HOA. But even the guy who made the video literally said right above your comment that he’s planting a garden there lmao. Perhaps you’re the one who should go outside or at least talk to different people as the world isn’t all the exact same as in your strange bubble.
@@1ray917 I don't have an HOA, that's the "magic world" I live in.
@@BadHomeowner lucky, hoas suck 🫱
I would add a capstone layer of nice flat stones
I don't think the flat would go with the rest of the cobblestones. it looks pretty good as it is
I'm not sure where you live, but It will be interesting to come back to this in a few years and see how it's holding up. I've always heard mortared-together walls don't survive freeze-thaw cycles for more than a few years, since moisture inevitably gets into the cracks. I would also imagine you'd need a proper footing to prevent soil heaving. Where I live, that means going down 42 inches!
Yep we'll see!
I did this project almost exactly, with the exception of the backfill - just a 3 block wall around a rose garden. Probably 20 linear feet, but 3 sides total 5/10/5 feet. 10 years in and there's 1 cracked section (on a short side no less). I'm in upstate NY, so plenty of freeze thaw. Admittedly, there's no dirt freezing behind the wall, only underneath, but it's otherwise the same structure. I really do like the look of granite cobbles.
A cobblestone wall? I've never seen one before. All street curbing in my area is granite blocks. I just had the end of my driveway paved with granite block. Never seen a wall though. Pretty thin for a wall. I hope it stands the test of time. I would have incorporated some geogrid atop the prenultimate row. Tie that wall into the hill.
I never saw one either until I built it!
Wrap the gravel within the fabric, putting the gravel around the pipe directly, not outside the fabric.
How’s the drilled PVC doing with drainage? When I worked in landscaping we always did corrugated pipe with French drains, but honestly that looks pretty efficient too.
I could only find corrugated in 4 inches, and I wanted something slightly smaller so that's why I went with 3in PVC. (And I don't think I need 4in diameter here). The main reason for corrugated is that it's a cheap way to get structural stability from a very thin material -- that's mainly what the folds are for. But as far as I can tell, there's little/no difference in drainage.
@@BadHomeowner right on! That’s totally valid. Glad it’s working well.
No rebar?
Was there any reason to doing the vertical joints after rather than during. Seems like typically they are done during the placements of the stone for better adherence. I get leaving a few open as well for drainage but wondering the thought process on it.
Yea it's much easier to do this with brick than with these larger stones. So I do the vertical joints later.
I'm not a fan of beaded joints, but this would have looked really good with beaded joints.
maybe but it also looks pretty good the way it is
I’m curious why you didn’t do what I think of as a traditional mortar job by buttering the sides as well when you were placing the stones?
mainly because you end up adjusting them quite a lot, and all the joints are different sizes. so I found it better to lay down a bed and then mortar the vertical joints later
Yeah not bad. 😁
that's what I said! lol
get a nice cap stone for that wall.
Thought about that, but honestly it looks pretty good as is.
Meh. I appreciate your effort, but I don't see those large vertical gaps withstanding the yearly expansion when ice fills those gaps.
They won't fill with ice, I don't live in Alaska
This is possibly the dumbest demonstration of a retaining wall build.
@@PhillTheGreat funny how you can always tell who has never built anything in their life by the comments they leave on UA-cam videos of people actually doing things
I dont know why he did not cut the top stones that was too long with a 10€ diamond blade, and faced it a bit with a hammer, instead of rotating it.
The overall finish did not look to bad, granite is a good choise
because I do what I want
If there is no water pressure then there is no need to glue the pipes
Technically true, but i still don't want them pulling apart from movement or freezing water or roots from a tree or who knows what. I'm happy to invest 5 minutes to avoid a potential 6 hour project later.
news flash lil bro, you arnt the first person to use cobblestone pavers to make a wall
ok find one photo of a retaining wall made out of real granite cobblestones and paste the link so that the whole class can benefit from your great insight
@@BadHomeowner you are trolling..i refuse to believe you think you are the first person to make a retaining wall from pavers
@@mrbig813 no go ahead, link to a photo so that we can all see what an idiot I am
@@BadHomeowner anyone reading this already sees it LOL
So you like to dig?
you could say that
@BadHomeowner love the channel so far
U forgot to put mortar on the top level stone Nd between the rocks
You forgot the letters y and o in the word "You"
seems hes never used stone and mortar before, because he would know the 2 dont mix. this isnt going to last very long, mortar is made for man made stone, because like the man made stuff it doesnt give. because mortar cant take movement, like natural stone and retaining walls will. so breaking starts as soon as it dries.
humans have been building mortared-stone structures for thousands of years. It looks like you haven't built a single thing in your entire life.
@@BadHomeowner well since what they used was lime mortar back then. it allowed some movement. todays mortar in a bag sets rigged, there is the difference, its like log cabin, people tried using mortar to replace mud. well that didnt work either it feel out or rotted the wood, you use old school material. even today you have to use old school supplies. by the way. if you inspect old school foundation blocks they didnt use the old mortar, it doesnt work or last with contact with the ground, the old mortar only worked above grade, in case you wanted to know how it was use properly. ever noticed that the romans. who invented concrete, used only man made stones with it. they knew better thousands of years ago,
My grandfather was a bricklayer and almost 50 years ago built a stone and mortar wall at my childhood home using stone found on the property. The wall is still standing perfectly today, no issues.
@@rawdatadaniel stone wall. or retaining wall? details matters.
Adding hydrated lime to your mix will help with workability, strength and water penetration (frost resistance) which is especially good, although no vital when working with stone as opposed to man-made materials.