Estimated cost of a garden wall

[Andrew Welham]

If I hired a builder to build a single leaf front garden wall ( 4 bricks high + fingers). Whats the estimated costs per meter ???

[Alan]

That depends on your area, the foundations (if any), the type of brick etc.

Get some brickies round for a quote?

[Andrew Welham]

I'm not looking for a quote to have any work done, but rather a gage of what it would cost if a brickie did the job. i looking for a comparison of DIY vs get someone in not a job to be done

Alan wrote:

[EricP]

£1 per brick is the usual reference figure, with them supplying the brick.

[Andrew Mawson]

Try cost of materials plus labour, which will be a brickie and a labourer. Say £250 per day or part of a day unless you are in an expensive area or planning to do the labouring yourself.

AWEM

[Phil L]

They don't work 'per metre' on piffling jobs like garden walls, especially ones that are only 4 bricks high :-p They price per metre when there's a few hundred metres to do, other than that it's priced on day rate or per hundred or thousand bricks. If you've only got a few hundred bricks to lay, either lay them yourself or get a small builder in, it's unlikely a bricky will leave any kind of decent sized job to go and lay a few hundred...a small builder will probably charge you a day, approx £250, you supply the bricks.