Sleeper wall

[Garry Ashton-Coulton]

Hello chaps
My wife wants me to build a sleeper wall in the garden only two sleepers high .. what would you say is the best way of fixing them together, threaded rod and nuts or long screws?

Thanks

 

[niall Y]

I have in the past used rebar with the bottom sleeper drilled right through, The top sleeper then need only be drilled 3/4 the way through, before being slotted on the top so water cannot easily get down the hole.

 

[Luke Barnard]

We have a small sleeper wall, 3 sleepers high. I put rebar in the bottom sleeper and postcreted these into the ground. Then I fixed the three sleepers together using galvanised heavy duty flat strap and 120 mm screws on the hidden back and side. It's held fine for 18 months. I actually had to take it down yesterday, as we are making space for a shed.
I would have preferred to do what Niall suggests, but drilling the sleepers was a nightmare and burnt out my old drill doing the bottom sleeper.

 

[Richard_C]

Sleepers or sleepers? Strikes me that big old recycled ones will be difficult to drill, the mock sleepers from garden centres will be a lot easier and the first suggestion is the most elegant.

 

[Myfordman]

I used lengths of steel re-bar hammered into drilled holes and then trhough into the ground below no signed of movement in 20 odd years

 

[Bingy man]

I’m probably the odd one out but long timber screws for me , I pilot drill through with a narrow drill and then drill a 15 mm hole about 1inch depth . Follow with your screw and the ones I use have a 8mm hex head so no problem with an impact driver. Then simply cut a 15mm plug a drop of waterproof glue . Once dry cut/plane or sand flat and your done ..