{"id":3150,"date":"2021-07-15T17:12:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2021-08-22T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T19:14:07","slug":"backfilling-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/backfilling-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Backfilling the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of work this year and the weather at the weekends hasn&#8217;t always been good for garden wall building.   But the wall is nearly at half height &#8211; there are already 1500 bricks in there and I budgeted around 3500 bricks for the whole wall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wall-near-half-height.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wall-near-half-height.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wall-near-half-height-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wall-near-half-height-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/wall-near-half-height-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The wall is high enough to backfill the trench and I&#8217;ll be sore tomorrow having moved many tons of earth.   The wall looks a lot taller from the garden side now it is no longer hidden by big piles of earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/earth-backfill.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/earth-backfill.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/earth-backfill-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/earth-backfill-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/earth-backfill-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There was some excess earth left over.   I suppose there would be after putting 4m cube of concrete in the hole for the foundations.  It was good exercise filling the skip.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a bag of top soil but it&#8217;s not accessible until the skip is collected.   Also my wheelbarrow has a flat tyre. Grass seeding will have to wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/spoil-removed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/spoil-removed.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/spoil-removed-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/spoil-removed-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/spoil-removed-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of work this year and the weather at the weekends hasn&#8217;t always been good for garden wall building. But the wall is nearly at half height &#8211; there are already 1500 bricks in there and I budgeted around 3500 bricks for the whole wall. The wall is high enough to backfill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3177,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-salutation.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}