Replacing wall coping

annieb1981

Hi everyone,
we have a low wall at front of the house and the copping pieces have seen better days! I honestly thought I could just have lifted and replaced the copping myself but it seems like they are almost part of the wall int he sense that the bottom side has a wide groove in it and it has then been cemented into top of the wall. It means that they won’t simply lift with a bit of force. Any suggestions? Would a Stihl saw be too much? The wall itself is 2 breeze blocks on their side on top of each other so where there are any cracks the wall shakes with any force. We had though about removing the wall but it’s too big a job than we’d want to undertake considering the garden level at other of it is higher than the other side which is along our road.

photo attached is the underside of the copping and you can see the cement filled ridge.
 Thank you

Eldi_Dos

If coping stones are well secured could you not disguise them by attaching decking planks along top of them.

annieb1981

Eldi_Dos said:

If coping stones are well secured could you not disguise them by attaching decking planks along top of them.
 

We had thought about doing a small
fence along top and bring a board out to the edge but some of the coping are unsightly, they are crumbling in places. And the price of wood now. Wall is about 2foot high but 28mters long