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Your Solid Garden Buddy: Top Landscaping Ideas Using Concrete Sleepers
Gardens come in all shapes and sizes – and there is more to shape than length and width. If you look at a beautiful landscape, it is unlikely to be completely flat. The world is full of hills and valleys, mountains and canyons, and Australia has plenty of that variety...
Steel Posts v Concrete Posts for Retaining Walls: Which is Better?
When garden talk turns to retaining walls, it tends to be all about durability, and rightly so, because there is not just longevity at stake here, there's safety too. That is why Standards Australia have an interest in the subject, with its own standard, AS4678, to be...
Timber vs Concrete Sleepers
This is the question as regards the heavy blocks we use in gardens for a variety of purposes, from edging and creating sections to constructing retaining walls (walls bearing the weight of large amounts of soil, creating raised beds and often used to add visual...
Concrete vs Wood Sleepers: Which Railway Sleepers are Best?
When it comes to choosing which dead weights to use for the really heavy duties in the garden, the question is inevitably asked: are concrete sleepers better than timber? This is not an easy decision to make, because both have their own good points, so let's take a...
Get Professional Help: Understanding Australian Standards for Concrete Sleeper Retaining Walls
Legislation and horticulture? In your own back yard? What madness is this? Why are Australian Standards involved? Planning permission is in many cases not a necessary evil, but a necessary safeguard, and retaining wall design standards exist because accidents happened...
How to Choose the Best Concrete Sleeper Suppliers in Australia
Many shrewd landscapers and private individuals are now using concrete products to give a garden the sort of stability it needs to last indefinitely, keeping its shape and layout constant. That allows them to ring the changes with the variables – the plants that give...