My daughter's house has a rather nice walled garden - but the wall has no capping and some of the bricks are spalling. The wall is a brick length thick - with the top of the wall laid with bricks across it.
I really feel we need to put some capping on the top to prevent more water and frost damage.
What would you suggest? Glazed brick? Stone?
Could the wall be cleaned as it looks a bit stained from water soacking down it?
Unless things have moved on it used to be an acid based cleaner was used to clean brickwork, I dont know what it was called or if still used today.
HCl or brick acid. Often called other things too.
NT
Replavce that layer with somthing a bit more 'engineeri8ng'
if its white from carbonate salts use brick acid or patio acid - same thing. Dilute hydrochloric acid
To me, a stone capping is the traditional way. Anything else looks a bit cheap.
Coping stones. Wire brush or if necessary brick acid for the stains.
One thing to note is that nearly all the capped walls around here seem to have loose capping after not many years, allowing the local yob fraternity to pinch them lob them into a garden or in the case of a pillar turn it through 45 degrees so my forehead got a big cut from the overhanging corner. It occurred to me there has to be more sturdy ways to attach coping stones than whatever people normally do. Maybe plastic pretend ones with clip on tops screwed into the brickwork are the way to go? Brian
Not helped by the parents who let their little darlings walk along everyone else's walls ...
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