"Mike Barnard" wrote in message
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Hi all.

I am writing on behalf of a friend who lives in an ex council area.
She lives in a terraced house that backs on to a garage compound,
which in turn backs on to a main road.

The wall for this compound was built 40+ years ago, is six feet high
and is only single leaf with the occasional, very thin, pillar for
support. The local night life scum like to trave through this compound
and over the wall. A tree was resting on it until last year when the
Highway cut it down as it could have caused damage.

A few weeks ago a section about 10 feet long was demolished. The
residents cleaned it up, bought barriers out of their own money and
have had builders in giving quotes. But last night the rest of the
wall was demolished. That's about another 40 feet of it.

There will be lot's of arguments about ownership (I'm looking into
Land registry already) responsabilities and the like, but my question
is about what to replace it with.

Is there a way of reinforcing a single leaf wall to resist this sort
of abuse? Can it have inserts like concrete has rebar? Would a better
cement mix help? Depending on who ends up paying it may be worth
putting a barbed wire top on it, or similar.

You can certainly and reinforcing mesh and even rebar if you have holes
through the bricks.
It may not stop them demolishing the wall if they really want to.


A double leaf would be better but it's unlikely that anyone will be
able to afford the extra costs.

Has anyone got any tips please?

Look at one of the modern wire fences (not chain link), cheaper than walls
and harder to climb but need more maintenance. You can also see through them
so its harder to hide.