"Bramblestick" wrote in message
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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.

Well, probably not practical for a small garden, but a crinkle-crankle
wall produces an extremely strong structure without the need for
buttresses and forms rather nice arbors on the inside, and you could plant
something spikey on the outside concavities.

http://norfolkcoast.co.uk/curiositie...ranklewall.htm shows an
example.

So a Norfolk website featuring a Suffolk wall. That's a bit crinkle crankle.

mark