We wanted to push our garden back by about 1.5/2m to give us more space immediately outside the house. We currently have a 1m high retaining wall holding the garden back, so we would need to get rid of this, push back and have a new retaining wall about 1.2m high and 7.5m long.
I looked at sleepers, I looked at block walls I looked at skips, I've looked at putting the waste soil down me trousers and shaking it around the village a la Great Escape.
Then we lost interest owing to money, being bothered, access etc.

Then our nice new neighbours told us they were thinking of pushing their garden back and would we like to do it at the same time. He suggested sheet piling as this would give an instant retain and then just get your digger in to get rid of soil, dig out behind the piling to the depth of the clay, put in crushed stone for drainage and job done. Apart from making it look nice, which I shall put to one side.

Which leads me to my question. Has anybody any experience of this?

My second question is: Whaddya reckon to this:
http://www.plasticpiling.co.uk/produ...-sheet-piling/
used in conjunction with driven steel tubes down the hollows as the main structural strength? These are attractive as they could be driven with a hand held driver like this
http://www.plasticpiling.co.uk/atlas...d-pile-driver/
and not with a huge piling machine/JCB.

All opinions welcome!

Ta David