Garden walls
A garden wall is a thin tower with one job: stay up in the frost. Here is what goes into one, from the ground up.
Fig. 07a · Section
The wall, from the ground up
Every layer is there for a reason. Skip the foundation and the wall leans; skip the damp-proof course and the bottom courses go green; skip the coping and the top courses fall off.
Specification
What we put in the price
Written quotes list each of these so you can compare like with like.
- Foundation
- Concrete strip footing sized to the ground and the wall height. Walls over about 1.2 m get an engineer’s check.
- Brick
- Frost-resistant facing bricks, matched to the house where the wall meets it. Samples shown before we order.
- Bond
- Flemish for a handsome run, English where strength matters, stretcher for a half-brick screen.
- Mortar
- Lime mortar on older properties, gauged lime-cement mortar elsewhere. Joints struck bucket-handle unless you ask otherwise.
- Piers
- Spaced to the height of the wall, with a damp-proof course through every pier and the wall.
- Coping
- Brick-on-edge, tile or stone, always with a drip so water leaves the face of the wall.
Choose the face
Which bond for your wall?
Switch bond and brick on the specimen and see the wall you would get.
Fig. 07b215 × 102.5 × 65 mm
Plan
Request a quote
Plan a wall.
Tell us the length, the height and what it has to hold back or hide. We will visit and send a written price.