How difficult is it to build a garden wall?

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I live on a corner plot which has a driveway to the side where I want to block the wall up.

I’ve rang round a few landscapers and builders, all of them apart from one ignore calls/aren’t interested. I managed to get one quote that was £1300 for a bare breeze block wall.

The question is, is it a difficult job to DIY a 3ft high wall, it’s going to be retaining earth behind it so needs to be pretty substantial I imagine. I’ve never worked with bricks and cement before but more than happy to try.

Pic for a guide, will need to be tied in with the existing walls either side.

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PhilboSE said:

Once you have your wall of concrete blocks (solid or hollow), what are you going to face it off with? They're not the most attractive things.

They’re going to be rendered to match the rest of the wall, I’ve got matching top stones I can fire on the top too.

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Thanks for all the replies, it will become a retaining wall as we have several tonnes of earth that we're going to shove behind it to level the garden out.

Digging out the footings I'm not too afraid of, I've just spent weeks removing several stubborn roots, digging french drains, etc, my main concern is that it doesn't fall over when I fill the earth up behind it.

Good shout on buying the mixer, would something like this do the job? https://www.gumtree.com/p/concrete-mixer/bell-ceme...

Is there a trick to attaching it to the existing wall on either side of the existing gap?