Hi all.I am writing on behalf of a friend who lives in an ex council area.She lives in a terraced house that backs on to a garage compound,which in turn backs on to a main road. The wall for this compound was built 40+ years ago, is six feet highand is only single leaf with the occasional, very thin, pillar forsupport. The local night life scum like to trave through this compoundand over the wall. A tree was resting on it until last year when theHighway cut it down as it could have caused damage.A few weeks ago a section about 10 feet long was demolished. Theresidents cleaned it up, bought barriers out of their own money andhave had builders in giving quotes. But last night the rest of thewall was demolished. That's about another 40 feet of it.There will be lot's of arguments about ownership (I'm looking intoLand registry already) responsabilities and the like, but my questionis about what to replace it with.Is there a way of reinforcing a single leaf wall to resist this sortof abuse? Can it have inserts like concrete has rebar? Would a bettercement mix help? Depending on who ends up paying it may be worthputting a barbed wire top on it, or similar.A double leaf would be better but it's unlikely that anyone will beable to afford the extra costs.Has anyone got any tips please?Mike.

You can certainly and reinforcing mesh and even rebar if you have holes through the bricks.It may not stop them demolishing the wall if they really want to.Look at one of the modern wire fences (not chain link), cheaper than walls and harder to climb but need more maintenance. You can also see through them so its harder to hide.

Advice on wall building please. A single leaf, 40 year old wall has been vandalised. What to replace it with?

Sep 14, 2009 21 Replies

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Bramblestick 16 years ago

Well, probably not practical for a small garden, but a crinkle-crankle wall produces an extremely strong structure without the need for buttresses and forms rather nice arbors on the inside, and you could plant something spikey on the outside concavities.

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mark 16 years ago

So a Norfolk website featuring a Suffolk wall. That's a bit crinkle crankle.

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