Gabion Mattresses are wire fabric containers, uniformly partitioned, of variable size, interconnected with other similar containers and filled with stone at the site of use, to form flexible, permeable, monolithic structures such as retaining walls, sea walls, channel linings, revetments and weirs for earth retention. Properly installation can help it work more effectively. In this article I will teach you how to install the mattress.
Before installing it, you need to prepare yourself with these tools:
* Pliers with long lips, pliers
* Metal rods for stretch mattress cover before binding
* Mounting
* Wooden stakes
1. Lay the mattress on a flat rigid surface and flatten all the folds.
2. Lift vertical side panels and diaphragms. Check that height of both sides was the same..
3. Lift vertical aperture at the height of the sidewalls and tie them to short sidewalls release wire of reinforcement.
4. Take the end of the wire, which diaphragm is attached to the bottom of gabion, drag it to yourself and use this end to bind to the diaphragm sidewall. Smuggle in as much wire as needed to binding to the aperture sidewall. The binding must be done continuous wire, rather than individual ligaments.
5. The front and rear panels are bent to the desired width, so that their upper edges are flush with the sides and then attached to sidewalls. Then the mattresses lay on the pre-packed layer of geo textile. Bonding must be done very carefully; it should not break geo textile wire.
6. Next is the final installation of gabion mattresses in their design position, then being reliably linked to each other mattresses. On the slopes of the mattress should fit a two-meter-side up and secured in the upper corners wooden pegs. Mattresses are linked with each other empty, and only then filled with stone. Filling mattresses stone by hand or mechanically on slopes of the mattresses are filled with stone from the bottom up. The stone should be robust and have a size between 75 mm and 2 / 3 the thickness of the mattress. The minimum size of stone for marine environment shall be 150 mm. Filled mattress should be slightly crowded, as should take into account the possible draft of the stone.
7. After filling the Mattress, strengthen its cover at the corners and reliably tie it to the top part of the diaphragm and the lateral the panels. Bunch is an alternating double and single loop, as has been shown to of box gabions. At there are several already filled mattresses Binding covers can be carried out on two adjacent mattresses.
