Crack in garden wall

-taff

So as I was looking around d the garden I see a crack in the wall.
The wall was originally built in two parts, the first wall is an extension of the wall underneath and is concrete block laid thin side up and its about 1m x 1m. Thy second wall was build next to it in lieu of a fence panel and is roughly the same size. These two walls were not tied together. The second wall is on the garden , the first wall is built on to concrete blocks laid flat.
There is a crack in between these two walls now and I'm worried the second one may fall over the winter.

Can I tie these two together with brackets or is that just a quick fix? I just don't want this wall falling into the neighbours garden.
And neither do i want to knock it down and rebuild just yet.

societys_child

C'mon . . you know someone's going to tell you we need photos

-taff

That's a job for the morning then

FreeBear

I was about to suggest a HeliFix Crack Stitching Kit, then I saw the price Screwfix charge (£210)...

So a low cost option - Rake out a couple of horizontal mortar joints either side of the crack to a depth of 50mm. Insert a length of rebar, bedding it in to some fresh mortar, and the repoint the joint.

-taff

https://ibb.co/SNSvyLL

neilmcl

Where's the crack?

-taff

Running horizontally between the walls in the step. Cunningly hidden by the rose bush. this one is slightly clearer but it goes almost all the way down
https://ibb.co/pdSjqFV

neilmcl

If that goes all the way down then any tie fix should be seen as a temporary solution.

-taff

That's what I'm after. Personal circumsances dictate no time or energy for the proper solution just yet.

FreeBear

-taff wrote: »

Running horizontally between the walls in the step.
https://ibb.co/pdSjqFV

Nope. That is a vertical crack - Stitching would be the quickest fix. Either rebar set in the horizontal mortar joints or flat steel bars bolted to either side of the wall.