Soho Gabion Baskets

Our gabions rock!

Build your own beautiful garden walls using local rocks.

Easy to install – no special tools required, just a few flat packed Soho Gabion Baskets^TM, a pair of gloves and light-weight wire cutter or pliiers.

Just build your baskets and fill with your chosen rocks.

Reflect traditional dry stone-wall technique

If you take the time to hand-place stones with flat faces against the mesh and can create a natural interlocked pattern, your wall will reflect the traditional dry stone wall technique. Being lightweight mesh, the hot dip galvanised steel baskets are barely visible from a distance completing the illusion of a wall crafted by an expert stonemason!

Low-embodied energy solution

Even better though is the saving in time and the complete absence of mortar and concrete. This is a low embodied energy solution in a craft that has previously had a very high carbon footprint. This is achieved by:

amazing structural efficiency: 6Kg of containment steel mesh and ties per ton of rock (avg) compared with 1 ton of reinforcing steel and concrete 1 ton of facing rock.energy audit of your existing building
the virtues of local rock: Whether quarried or gathered from a river or beach source there is a beautiful result to be gained from local rock that not only has a specific terroir but has required minimum transport energy to reach you
ease of assembly and disassembly: Gabion rock walls without cement and reinforcing steel are quick to build and even quicker to disassemble should you change your landscape plan in future
pollution free: If there is a need to retreat from an environmentally hazardous area a gabion wall can be disassembled and the rocks left as a natural cairn or removed, with the gabion baskets, for rebuilding elsewhere. No residue, pollutants or concrete foundations left to spoil the site.

Specifications

Soho Gabion baskets are manufactured from 2.5mm steel mesh welded in 75mm rectangular grid and protected with hot dip galvanising to Galfan 255 gm/m2 specification.

Helical connectors and internal ties are hot dip galvanised.

Each standard 1000mm x 1000mm x 500mm gabion basket set comprises:

2 no 1000mm x 1000mm mesh panels
4 no 1000mm x 500mm mesh panels
8 no 1000mm helical connectors
4 no 500mm helical connectors
3 no 1000mm internal cross ties
9 no 500mm internal cross ties.

You can trim your Soho Gabion basket panels and connectors to smaller sizes with lightweight wire cutters.

Non-standard sets based on half size baskets of 1000 x 500 x 500 can be ordered for half-height or one-and-a-half-height walls.

Higher walls

Free standing walls above 1500mm in height may require cantilever timber posts at 1000mm centres concealed in their interior for added stability.