You're usually looking at a retaining wall system when the site has already forced the issue. The backyard falls away. The boundary fence needs support. A driveway edge needs holding. Or a builder wants the wall specified properly before concrete sleepers and steel posts are ordered. The mistake is treating the wall as a pile […]
If you’re planning a retaining wall using h beams, you’re usually dealing with one of three problems. The block is sloping, the fence line needs support, or the existing timber wall is already moving and you don’t want to rebuild the same failure in a different material. The steel post and concrete sleeper system is […]
You’re usually looking at steel retaining walls when timber no longer makes sense. The site has fall across the block, the fence line needs to stay neat, and you want a wall system that can be specified properly instead of guessed on-site. That’s where galvanised steel posts and concrete sleepers come into their own. For […]
You’re usually looking at retaining wall posts when the project has stopped being theoretical. The slope is there. The boundary needs holding. The old timber wall has moved, or the fence line needs a proper base before anything else goes in. At that point, the wrong post choice doesn’t just create a messy quote. It […]
A 100×100 steel post in Australian retaining walls usually means a galvanised UC or SHS upright sized 100mm x 100mm, used to hold concrete sleepers and resist soil loads. For SHS, the 100 x 100 x 5mm section weighs 14.2 kg/m and has 100.0mm width and height with 5mm thickness, which is why it sits […]
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