NT coughed up some electrons that declared:

On Sep 14, 9:26*am, Mike Barnard
wrote:
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.

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?

Mike.

make the wall thick, eg 13", use heavy concrete blocks, strongest
mortar possible with EVA added, and add, in order of increasing
effectiveness, barbed wire or EML in the mortar courses or rebar in
the middle of the wall, filling with concrete.

Another possible is rendered gabions, if a very thick wall is ok.

Other options exist, but you really want the wall to at least look
like something intended for peacetime.


NT

What about using bricks with the 3 holes through them (those might be
engineering bricks - I'm not a brick expert) and drop rebar through
occasionally as the bricklaying progresses? Nice brick wall and chavs with
broken ankles...

It might only be necessary to rebar to top 2-3 foot of wall given the weight
will make it very difficult to demolish from below.

Tim