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What are the guidelines for limits on heights/lengths of walls when building with 4" solid blocks ? All the boundary walls in our estate are built with 4" blocks.
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ONQ you advise that" Construction details like this should be discussed with your engineer and not rest on the advice of any tradesman less than a master blocklayer or master bricklayer."
Can you advise on how best to find an engineer for this kind of job.
I need to get quotes for a quite extensive garden wall - site slopes and has other features, so I know that it is not a straightforward job to be given to the first brikkie that comes along... but I don't know where to get the right advice.
Any tips much appreciated (South Dublin area) or if you could PM me any names I could contact?
thanks in advance
Guys no point making a mountain out of a mole hill here. The girl just wants to build a straight forward wall. And by the sounds of it if she gets her hands on a good blocklayer this would be a straight forward job providing there are no anomilies we do not know about with the conditions of the area in which this wall will be built.
Bringing in an engineer to design a garden wall makes me laugh, all this is doing is creating an expense that may not need to be incurred. A good builder (not gerry builder) will do this for her with his eyes closed for god sake.
Stop complicating a simple job and get on with it.
Alison yes you will need pillers on your wall as outlined in the previous threads. You are staying within the 1.2m height for a 4" wall so your fine but if you go higher than this you will need to go 225mm. This is a 4" on the flat, this will also double the amount of blocks you use and you will still need pillars.
You will need approx 6" of concrete for your foundations and a bit of re-bar steel in this would not go astray. Give the concrete a few days to set and away you go. I have often build on foundations for a house the following morning after pouring the concrete in the evening before.
If there are water table issues just put some weep holes in the blockwork approx 50mm wide x 225mm high along the bottom course of blockwork to allow any water flow not to build up in anyones garden.
Simple job done in a few days if we were all to listen to the other threads it would take a month to do and a mile of costs to go with it.
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What are the guidelines for limits on heights/lengths of walls when building with 4" solid blocks ? All the boundary walls in our estate are built with 4" blocks.
I actually want to do a bit of work on our sloping up away from the house back garden, but was concerned about the proximity to one of these walls. Its about 40 feet across with pillars at 8-10 foot intervals and is about 2m high. There is a proper foundation. The bottom 6 rows are block on flat but I think that was done because the neighbours garden is higher than ours so their soil/grass actually covers most of them on their side. Any advice on what to do to make such a wall safe in the event of wanting to do a bit of digging ?
Thanks in advance,
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onq,
I did not go into every detail into how to build a garden wall but just some general advise on how it could be done with out making a meal out of it. I did say however assuming that all ground conditions were correct and adaquate than a standard foundation will suffice. It is not a house she is building,it is a garden wall and I have never build a house on 200mm of concrete foundations either as you suggest, minimum I have ever done is 300mm (is this not standard practice). I except the fact that all is not rosey in the garden all the time when it comes to building a wall but lets be honest provided all is in order with ground conditions its not rocket science.
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