Bricklaying quote

fwor

I need to get a garden wall rebuilt - does a quote of £1500 + VAT for the following seem reasonable? It's "labour only" because I've cleaned up most of the old bricks to be re-used and will buy the few extra bricks needed, no demolition of the old wall needed.

It's a 9m long single brick wall with two piers and an angled joint to another wall at one end - area 20sqm approx, no re-laying of foundations needed - the existing ones are Ok. Location is in the southeast between London and the south coast.

suisidevw

Seems expensive compared to what I paid last year for new foundations for a wall slightly longer, with more peers, tied into house etc and with new bricks! I'm in S Wales though!

fwor

It does seem expensive, but I reckon you must have got a really good deal. Bricks are expensive now, and that's more than a thousand bricks (though mine is 1.8m tall - I suspect yours may be a lower wall?).

Was yours broken down at all into labour and materials?

suisidevw

Nope, a guy and his labourer did it on a Sat and Sun - bricks were from a trade supplier. Pics below to see what we got..... trellis up etc by little brick wall now

fwor

Hmm... I'd guesstimate yours is maybe about the same number of bricks as mine (yours is partly lower, but longer), so I guess that's at least £800 in materials (down here), depending on what bricks they used.

So you paid maybe £600 in labour? Seems like pretty good value for four mandays of work. People don't seem to want the work so much around here...

suisidevw

I don't think I mentioned the cost above. I think the cost was £1500 in total (no VAT) and I've just had a look, I ebanked the bricky £800 for materials, so we are looking at £700 for two people for two days, plus a few hours the night before laying the foundations. (I cleared the old wall away down to the bottom)

suisidevw

PS. The bricks were from the trade part of B and Q, he bought a few as samples so we could match as similar as possible to the original brick at the rear. I also paid x amount for black die to darken the mortar. HTH