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Just testing the poss expense!! Anybody know or have had one built/quoted recently?
Double skin about 6ft high to replace the about to die wooden garden fence! Cheers.
A lot more than you'll think I'm afraid. Concrete £70 per m3 for founds, reasonable looking brick, £200/£220 a thou, labour? What's the length of the wall? Garden walls have always had a tendency to surprise people due to what seems a lot of money for basically a wall!! Any planning issues btw?
^ what mr wrighty "why not use more concrete" son says 😉
Although I ended up getting probably the most expensive bricks in the catalogue for mine at about 46p each, and that was only 2p a brick higher than my builder's merchant was getting them in for.
Wanting to do two walls at about 36ft long each! This is going to be expensive isnt it?
Time to start looking at fencing.
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12m foundations, 450mm wide, 450mm deep = 3m3 concrete = £200
24m2 wall, double, = 2.5 tonnes of sand and 30 bags of cement = say, £100 + £120
c.3,000 4" bricks @ 25p = £750
2 days ground works and 6 days laying for one guy. Possibly less if someone else is making muck., say £1000?
all in £2000-2500 maybe?
Yep - it's about £800 labour for a single skin 8ft high by 12ft long WITH all the stuff provided!
Always buy one of those Tommy Walsh Bricky Mate things........
Nice one fellas! Some serious thinking ahead. Will need to invite the neighbours round for some homecooked lasagne and wine get them warmed up for the "do you fancy going halves" question. 😆
BTW, you'd probably want to add another £200 for the digger hire for the day.
You could probably shutter and pour it slightly cheaper, might look a bit prisony tho 😆
Brick laying course at local college ? I've done a 10 week intro and a 12 month one. The 10 week one would teach you enough to build a garden wall.
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You could probably shutter and pour it slightly cheaper, might look a bit prisony tho
Good luck with that one.
[b]HIJACK[/b] [i]Stoner - [/i] what you be your general advice for footings for a block built garage walls? <2.5mtr high, just a basic non fancy build. Clay soil which seems firmish not spongelike. Ta
Concrete £70 per m3 for founds
And the rest...! If you want it delivered, it'll be nearer £100/m3
Sorry to hijack the thread but, I need some pointing on my house doing, what sort of m2 should a good bricky be doing in a day? He would need to rake out as well!
Pp no it won't! Yes you pay part load if your running a 6m truck in carrying 2 cube, but I can get minis or the onsite mixers for £80 a cube. I only based the 70 on a full load hence me asking how long the wall is.
wot wrighty said ^
6m3 loads at about £65 a cube. Onsite's are around £75-80 near here.
qwerty - Im no expert, wrightyson is, but footing size for a building can be all sorts of sizes dependign on loads, ground type and proximity of trees. My neighbour had to sink 1.5m footings for his because his building control got al excitable over the closeness of some hawthorn! 🙄
If you go 150mm wider than the width of the wall on both sides and 700mm deep then you are prob alright, but that's just a finger in the air.
😀 stoner!
As stoner said good practice these days is 150 over dig each side on overall wall construction. Ie 100mm block 100 mm brick 100mm cavity = 600 strip. You can fanny about coming up with sizes of footings but most machines will just rock up with a 2ft bucket and dig. 225 solid wall and I'd pull an 18 inch trench, end of the day you dig it you've got to fill it!!
Onto the clay ground, it was once considered the bees knees for building off, soon as you hit clay take another six inch out and pour. However clay suffers shrinkage when certain trees are prevalent and that's when LABC start coming up with ridiculous suggestions ready to bankrupt most average builders.
Have a look round on what could influence ground conditions and go from there, if it's something sizeable and permanent itll probably come under planning anyway.
And mr stevewhyte it was a tongue in cheek suggestion due to my love of the grey stuff 😉
[b]Stoner & Wrightyson[/b] [i]- many thanks for your input.[/i] Our planned garage build will fall within permitted development as < 30mtr2. It will be a single skin wall so that will save in width, its the depth that'll be the challenge! 2' [i]max[/i] hopefully as the soils gonna be dumped elsewhere on our plot. Thanks again (i'll probably be asking some ill informed Q's latr!!!!).
I think stoner and wrightyson should have their own satellite tv show to be honest. 🙂
Which one you wanna be stoner? Handyandy or Tommy Walsh?
Holy crapola!
I think I'm going to retrain as a brickie.
Im more your Kevin McCloud really 😉