Garden wall or fence it? Costs?

essex_grl

Hi all, new here! Have moved house 6 months ago and it's turning into a money pit!!


We have 2 13ft 2m tall garden walls (single thickness with end pillars and one central) that are both on their way out along with a curved 1m long wall at the end of those.



If I look at having the walls knocked down to the first 2-3 rows of bricks which are sound how much am I look at to rebuild?


My other thought was to fence with posts on top of those bricks? Surely that would be cheaper?


Thank you all
essex

Davesnave

Quite a few people place questions about building in this section of the forum, but Greenfingered is about gardening, not building. Your question would get more responses in 'In My Home.'

A couple of observations I'd make:

'On the way out' doesn't describe the problem with the existing bricks, so we can't tell if they're going to be scrapped or re-used. It would be odd to have deteriorated bricks in the top part of a wall and sound ones at the base, unless the bottom bricks were different - say engineering bricks. Is that the case?

If the bricks aren't to be re-used, disposal through Freecycle or similar would be cheaper than a skip. If saleable, eBay would be even better.

A fence would be cheaper, and a hedge, cheaper still. However placing a fence on top of an existing dwarf wall might not be simple due to foundations obstructing the posts.

sheramber

Ask three builders for quotes.

Take the measurement of the length and height required for a fence and get quotes from a fencing company.

A rough cost could be got by pricing fence panels in a DIY store but you would have to add on erection costs.