Building a Retaining Wall with Sleepers

If you can get hold of some old wooden railway sleepers, they are an excellent alternative to using bricks of blocks for building retaining walls for raised beds. Firstly, using reclaimed sleepers will often be cheaper than buying new bricks. Building a wall with sleepers is also often faster and easier than using bricks, even though the sleepers can be heavy (you may need an extra pair of helping hands to move them into place) and because they are heavily impregnated with preservative, they can last for a very long time. The final reason to use sleepers rather than bricks of blocks is that they look really nice in the garden, giving a much more natural finish.


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