garden wall

I had a go 6 years ago at building a garden wall obviously I had no ideal what I was doing but the end result wasn’t too bad really what do you think ? How To Build A Brick Wall

Hi all I've got a brick wall in my garden with a large crack in the mortar, apparently caused by a buddleia that the previous owners let get out of control. I've cut the buddleia right back and plan on injecting remaining stems with concentrated weed killer but beyond repointing the crack is...

Hello! My first post, but will probably be on here a fair bit in the coming months, getting advice and hopefully sharing some stories. So I've had the survey results back on a prospective house, and one of the concerns noted by the surveyor is that the garden wall that separates the house from...

Hi, I am planning on building some raised beds around a patio using blockwork and then fitting porcelain cladding. The beds will be about 4m by 1m and about 0.6m high. To keep the costs down I was looking to use a single skin of 100mm wide blocks, would this be enough? Or should I use 140mm...

Hi all - Ok so I'm going to give this little project a go myself (yikes). I need to heighten a low retaining wall (the extra height will not have to retail soil etc.) I've read about the mortar mix and find different suggestions of 3/1 soft sand to cement and 3/1 sharp sand to cement and a few...

Got just 2 layers of a rustic garden wall to patch up just 1m wide. Made of broken pieces of pavement slabs 50mm thick. Mortaring about 1 cm thick layer with same thickness aggregate thrown in for strength. Got maybe 3 or 4 handfuls wickes ready mix mortar bag left, but maybe little short to...

Having not long moved our to do list is pretty long and we’re trying to prioritise. A section of the retaining wall behind our house has quite a big crack. The garden does bank up quite a bit behind it so there is a lot of pressure. As you can see from the photos there is drainage but unlike...

Hi, looking for some advice please, we are wanting to add flat coping stones to a wall any advice please on the best way to fix them to the wall? There will be railings going on top. We were going to use mortar however I was advised that this wouldn't be stable enough with railings too. We have...

Hi guys, I’m building a single skin, 4 courses solid engineering brick retaining wall to retain a small garden lawn. I’ve left weep holes every 2nd brick at ground level and will backfill with 10mm pea gravel, but wanted thoughts on whether a polythene membrane should be put along the side of...

Hi all, I'm currently in the process of building a sleeper wall to try and flatten out my lawn. There is already a retaining wall for a sunken patio which is due to the house being on the side of a hill and theres not much i can do with that. I'm in a bit of a dilemma on what do to with the...

Hi, i am interested in building a retaining wall. Does anybody have any good links on how-to guides?. I would like ideally to build it from interlocking blocks, membrane and slotted drainage pipe, but I've only ever seen the interlocking blocks on american videos and not sure if they're...

Hi All, I’ve been having some work done in the garden and as part of that I’ve had the garden wall rendered, the company I’m using have subcontracted the work out and I’m not very happy with the finish. I’m hoping someone will be able to guide as to what’s gone wrong and give me the knowledge...

Hi folks, I’ve done quite a bit of research but can’t find the exact answer to the exact question I have; do I need a cavity in a 2 skin concrete block wall to satisfy k-rend requirements? Background. I have had a 1.5m block retaining wall built and hope to k rend it (eventually after other...

Hi everyone! I am hoping for some opinions on whether or not I need planning permission to alter my garden wall. The wall is 6ft high, and has a large curve as seen in the photos attached. I want to remove the curve and straighten it up as shown by my amazing artwork (not to scale). I have...

Hello, I have a single skin 30-meter garden wall (see attached) its approaching 50 years old and is in poor shape in places. As you can see the top courses are a bit knackered in places, there are also spalled bricks and some repointing that needs doing. The wall retains some of the garden...

Previous owner had an extension built, but when they removed part of the garden wall they didn't bother to put a pier at the end the gate was fixed to. So, over a couple of years the gate worked a couple of the bricks loose. Wall now needs strengthening so the gate can be re-hung, allow for...

Hello all. Please can I have your opinion(s): I'm knocking down a leaking garden shed to gain some space, and building a new lean-to shed in my garden to allow a bit more space. Try and picture this if you can: there's a 1.5m garden wall (we live in a Victorian terrace) at the end of the...