Coping stones.
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Wall Coping
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Concrete pavers (not paving...) in various colours... depends on your wall width & budget I spose...
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Garden wall only has soldier brick course along the top and some (neighbours walls) are showing signs of spalling and staining (1988 build)
Any suggestions as to what to use to cap the wall?
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3 years ago
Use engineering bricks for the soldiers makes for an interesting contrast to the rest of the wall.
Richard
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"Jim GM4DHJ ..." snipped-for-privacy@ntlworld.com wrote in news:PO4JG.6205$ snipped-for-privacy@fx17.am:
Any views on cost comparison?
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Tricky Dicky snipped-for-privacy@sky.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:
Mmmm - that implies removing the existing soldiers. A possibility, but capping seems maybe a quicker way.
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But contrary to expectations, they are not frost-proof when used above ground.
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Mine have withstood 70 years as DPC. The back ofthe house gets wetted by splashing of rain but has no sun over the winter, so it's frozen and thawed quite often - or was, hardly at all nowadays. It's a council-built house and the bricks are the blue ones - I suspect that they're better than the modern ones.
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I ordered some blue engineering bricks recently - cost was around
94p/brick for a small quantity.(the ones I have here as soldier courses on the top of walls etc have so far lasted a couple of decades without any degradation)
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3 years ago
Old house? I hate brick on edge over creasing tiles on a garden wall. Looks cheap to me.
Yorkstone capping would be more in keeping. Not that expensive as part of the overall wall costs.
If a newish house, precast concrete capping.
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I have some used as a path edging, laid so that the normal brick face is uppermost, done about 8 years old. A couple of them are already losing 'wafers' from the topmost exposed edge.
Friend of a neighbours who used to work for Southwater brick co watched me do it and came over and said the frost would get into them eventually. They are apparently intended for 'below ground' usage.
These were the red variety, about 38p in wickes. The black ones might be more dense.