Garden wall cost?

[dirty boy]

Sadly, the hedge has died near the house, so about a third of it is brown and horrible.

Most of the house is now rendered and cream but there's a rear extension that I have no pics of, but uses the same bricks as the path at the frong (they were left over)

[p1stonhead]

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.

Christ i was expecting something horrible.

Thats much nicer than a huge wall would be!

Your garden is several magnitudes larger than the one in the picture you like (more of a courtyard garden where it suits) and it would be very very imposing. And could cost easily £10k+

[Rosscow]

That would need a decent footing as well - for a 9" solid wall you'd probably want an 18" wide footing by maybe 2' deep?

That means lots of digger action on that nice lawn!

[mondeoman]

Don't, just don't.

[Robertj21a]

I would definitely keep that hedge.

[lee_fr200]

you would feel hemmed in by a wall and it would be unsightly,

while I'm with you on hedges, i hate them too have you thought about some concrete posts and nice gravel boards and some light coloured fencing,

[VEIGHT]

What are you going to spend the £20k saving on? That's what I want to know

[p1stonhead]

Yeah he's mentally spent it already so can get a silly car

[DodgeeDave]

Maybe you could have a wall by the house where the dead bit of hedge is and keep the rest of the hedge?

[hyphen]

p1stonhead said:

Christ i was expecting something horrible.

Thats much nicer than a huge wall would be!

Your garden is several magnitudes larger than the one in the picture you like (more of a courtyard garden where it suits) and it would be very very imposing. And could cost easily £10k+

+1 A brick wall can look brilliant, but it needs to be part of the theme of the garden- more contemporary/urban design.

Against a lawn it may not look right. How about just doing the dead part at the front as a wall or something?

[kurt535]

Djtemeka said:

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

Nope. We haven't been charged - we don't tip at council places, only an aggregate centre. It gets crushed into type 1

[tim0409]

Just build the wall and then ask your neighbour to pay....Trump seems to think it will work

[mikeiow]

DodgeeDave said:

Maybe you could have a wall by the house where the dead bit of hedge is and keep the rest of the hedge?

Hedge looks fine to me too! I'd perhaps put a nice fence panel or two near the house where it is dead and paint it dark green.....perhaps with trellis on top, grow some nice climbers up it, I think that would blend in better....& cost far less than a wall. You can even use concrete posts and gravel boards and paint them with the woodstain to blend in but be longer lasting...

A wall would look too stark....especially compared with the hedge!
Enjoy the savings

[Robertj21a]

mikeiow said:

DodgeeDave said:

Maybe you could have a wall by the house where the dead bit of hedge is and keep the rest of the hedge?

Hedge looks fine to me too! I'd perhaps put a nice fence panel or two near the house where it is dead and paint it dark green.....perhaps with trellis on top, grow some nice climbers up it, I think that would blend in better....& cost far less than a wall. You can even use concrete posts and gravel boards and paint them with the woodstain to blend in but be longer lasting...

A wall would look too stark....especially compared with the hedge!
Enjoy the savings

Quite agree. Just think about all those birds you'd make homeless otherwise......