Pouring a concrete retaining wall is not that difficult and this easy to follow how to guide will show you just what to do.
Pouring concrete wall against existing wall.
Concrete should never be poured up against steel siding and or trim.
Anyway regardless of whether your house is made of masonry block with a fake stone veneer or is really of stone you cannot pour concrete against the wall unless both share the same footing.
Allow concrete to cure.
Create contraction joints every 4 6 feet.
Pour footings and wall.
The addition of reinforcing steel to either wall system complicates the issue.
With no joint footing even if the subsurface was very stable it would not work because water would eventually get between the wall and the patio and undermine the subsurface and then bad things would begin to happen.
If the wall exceeds four feet in height footings should be poured separately.
The poured concrete wall has more mass or interlocking cement paste crystals to resist the cracking force.
I noticed something in his video that raised a red flag for me so i thought i would rough ou.
If you want to build a concrete retaining wall you should consider pouring the wall rather than making it out of concrete blocks.
Finish the surface of the wall as desired.
The hollow block wall is depending solely on the strength of the thin mortar bed between each concrete block.