Garden wall cost?

[dirty boy]

There's a wall on the lawn thread



Which I really like! I've got 25m of conifers at the moment along one side...if I removed them, any idea how much a 6ft version of a wall like that is likely to set me back? Or is it just pie in the sky numbers and a waste!?

[NickCW]

Bricks are approx £1 each, and you would be surprised how many a wall like that would take up.
Add in labour and you could be looking at 4/6k depending on the builder.

I was quoted 5k for a much smaller wall before before having a friend do it for about a quarter of that.

[roofer]

Dunno, but I hope the one in the pic is buttressed !

[dirty boy]

Sounds like it would be expensive.

Getting the conifers out would be a nightmare, plus, thinking about their roots being where i'd need footings sounds like a horrible job.

[cossy400]

SIL, has just done a very similar job (remove conifers and build a wall 3/4ft high with pillars in at set gaps)

Not sure on length but he d priced it tight as it was his best mates neighbour.

Upon digging the footings out, roots had grown round the gas pipe, he thought he cut them all but sadly he hadn't and when he pulled it out he split the gas pipe.

but im sure he d priced that at 5/6 grand, was a fair wall in length to be fair.

[Too Late]

dirty boy said:

Sounds like it would be expensive.

Getting the conifers out would be a nightmare, plus, thinking about their roots being where i'd need footings sounds like a horrible job.

removing large conifers could trigger subsidence...

[Gav147]

Too Late said:

removing large conifers could trigger subsidence...

Apt username if you are speaking from experience

[AlmostUseful]

roofer said:

Dunno, but I hope the one in the pic is buttressed !

At that height on a new build estate it's likely to be a retaining wall, only the upper 1800mm will be 215mm thick, could be as thick as 500mm at the base.

[037]

That would be almost 200m2 0f brickwork. Approx 11000 brick.
£400 per thousand labour cost+ tree removal+foundation dig and concrete poured etc
Getting on for £20k

[kurt535]

Am having my party wall fully rebuilt at the moment.

Total bricks needed came in at 2500.

Builder had a Transit tipper so taking away old bricks to hardcore site saved approx 4 skips@ £225 a throw

Overall, rebuild is costing £6.5k.

[lee_fr200]

I've just had a quote for something rather simple, my driveway between me and my neighbour has paving flags on their side and i asked for a price to have them removed and a wall built,

its 13 n half foot long and at the deepest pain 2 n half foot in height tapering off to nothing, with 2 five foot pillars at each side of the drive,

builder quoted me 600 bricks and £1850 and I've got to be honest i thought that was expensive, i was told to expect to pay around £1,200

[Gav147]

Depends really, I would say you'd be lucky to get it done for £1,200 tbh, off the top of my head there's getting on for ~£1k in materials if you add in a skip, digger and concrete for the foundations it will need.

[Djtemeka]

kurt535 said:

Am having my party wall fully rebuilt at the moment.

Total bricks needed came in at 2500.

Builder had a Transit tipper so taking away old bricks to hardcore site saved approx 4 skips@ £225 a throw

Overall, rebuild is costing £6.5k.

The builder will get charged at the tip to dispose it.
My rubbish collector gets charged £170/ton at the council tip

[p1stonhead]

NickCW said:

Bricks are approx £1 each

Or as little as 30p each.....

£1000 per 1000 is a very expensive brick indeed.

Edited by p1stonhead on Wednesday 26th April 07:21

[hyphen]

kurt535 said:

Am having my party wall fully rebuilt at the moment.

Total bricks needed came in at 2500.

Builder had a Transit tipper so taking away old bricks to hardcore site saved approx 4 skips@ £225 a throw

Overall, rebuild is costing £6.5k.

Party wall as in 'internally between house'? or garden separating wall.

[lee_fr200]

Gav147 said:

Depends really, I would say you'd be lucky to get it done for £1,200 tbh, off the top of my head there's getting on for ~£1k in materials if you add in a skip, digger and concrete for the foundations it will need.

Yeah so I'm realising I didn't think walls were so expensive, I was given a quote of 1490 plus vat by another, I asked if he was interested in cash and knock the vat off but never heard back from him

[dirty boy]

This is the unsightly hedge in question. The issue I have, is that it's mostly dead nearer the house. I'm not sure how the neighbour would react, but if he didn't have to pay, I guess he'd say yes.

[TROOPER88]

dirty boy said:

This is the unsightly hedge in question. The issue I have, is that it's mostly dead nearer the house. I'm not sure how the neighbour would react, but if he didn't have to pay, I guess he'd say yes.

Could just be me but that hedge looks very nice and far more appealing than a brick wall

[Countdown]

TROOPER88 said:

Could just be me but that hedge looks very nice and far more appealing than a brick wall

I thought the same.

[Tahiti]

I agree. There doesn't seem to be an obvious brick colour to choose in this set up either.