Hello, some question for those experienced with earthbags. It's hopefully simple but we are earthbag newbies so any help much appreciated.:
Attempting to make a 100m footpath safer at a farm and retreat property. Plan is to build up above the existing path (which is very uneven sandstone road), using some crushed limestone we have available.
Looking at options for the edging/formwork to contain the limestone and assist with erosion control, we get high intensity rain and the path is on average 1:20 slope.
We considered raw stone as edging, attractive, but difficult to lay evenly. Hence would like to use earthbags for the edging/form work to avoid the other option of long concrete curb/s.
- Bags would likely be 1 maybe 2 courses high so really quite minimal.
- We'd likely render the bags to protect from UV (UV is also intense at this location)
- We'd keep foot traffic off the render with some stones or similar 'nudge' to keep people off the bags.
- We plan to use crushed limestone as bag fill but other options considered too. The 'outside' of the bags we'd put some loose stone as additional protection from water.
Any thoughts on stability of the bags/edging with such a low course and high rainfall?
Any perceived issues with moisture/water entering the bags? Anything else we should consider or that I'm missing?
Thanks for any advice.
