How much to build this boundary wall?
 

I need a quick price for a boundary wall at the front of the house.
The builders are in doing a major extension and the brickies have
offered to build a wall at the front of the house along the pavement.

There's already a single course wall there, they'll just have to knock
that layer off. So there's no foundations or anything to dig. It will
be 27 feet long and 5 courses high (6 courses if funds allow). We also
want a small pillar at each end, just 7 or 8 courses high.

How much should this cost, in (a) engineering brick and (b) pinhole
brick.

Thanks.

How much to build this boundary wall?
 

How much to build this boundary wall?
 

Excellent, thanks, that's really useful. At the risk of sounding like a
total numbskull, when you say "one brick thick", that seems very thin
to me. Currently we simply have a "row of soldiers" sitting at
virtually ground level so I'm assuming it is currently effectively "two
thicks brick". If we wanted to build it this thick, it wouldn't quite
double the cost would it?

How much to build this boundary wall?
 

I mean "two bricks thick", of course :) It's me that's thick as a
brick!

How much to build this boundary wall?
 

"2 bricks thick" is 18" or 440mm - a bit much for a garden wall?

A single brick wall (4.5" or 100mm) is "half brick thick" and sizes go
up in 1/2 bricks

dg

How much to build this boundary wall?
 

Ah, thanks. So single brick thick means the brick's length. With you.
Thanks all.

How much to build this boundary wall?
 

How much to build this boundary wall?
 

Phil L wrote:
wrote:

Ergo a wall which is one brick wide is 4.5 inches, two bricks wide is 9
inch, unless you have a cavity (like most houses) which will usually make it
11 inches wide.

No, wall thicknesses are described in relation to brick lengths, so a
one brick wall is 9" thick.

This comes from when walls were typically in English or Flemish bond
and 1 brick was the minimum thickness, and thicker walls went up in 1/2
brick increments.

dg