Neighbour’s built a garden wall of very low quality

feedthecat

LightFlare said:

BlueVeranda said:

You could plant some ivy up against it. I'm sure it would soon get established with all those little crevices...

OP could then possibly be responsible for any damage the Ivy did.

Best to leave it well alone and use something to screen the view (that isn't attached to the wall)

As mentioned - any chance of pictures of the top view and height of the wall ?

The wall is about 2 metres high around the height the fence was.  The wall is one brick deep apart from the old fence post areas where they have added another layer.  The top of the wall is just smeared cement that has come out of the middle holes in the bricks

stuart45

A strong wind could take that wall down. Have a look online on the LA site about recommended heights for free standing walls.

LightFlare

stuart45 said:

A strong wind could take that wall down. Have a look online on the LA site about recommended heights for free standing walls.

agreed -- you also need to check what exactly it is they are responsible for providing

If it is just the maintenance of boundary, then they could just put up wooden posts and a piece of string (or even nothing).
They may very well have no obligation to provide a specific type of boundary or to ensure that it is visually pleasing to you

shinytop

markin said:

Tap off any big lumps, and use planter boxes to hide the worst parts, it won't look so bad when it darkens, you could also hide it with a roll of bamboo or a fence

This, and have a go at pointing the missed bits. It won't look that bad, especially after a bit of weathering.  

markin

1.5m or lower unless engineerd.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/your-garden-walls-better-to-be-safe

thegreenone

Why would any experienced bricklayer do that? Surely they've set themselves up for a social media slanging? It looks like Master Brickie on one side and Day One Apprentice on the other.

OP, if you know the co. perhaps you could contact and ask why such a shoddy job on your side. 

Edited:  apologies, didn't see there was a Page 2.  So Master Brickie has properly finished on one side but not the other.  But if it's single brick, I don't understand how the OPs side can look like it does?   

subjecttocontract

I think I'd be inclined to tidy up the pointing.....knock off the high spots & fill the holes with mortar. Then when dry give the wall a couple of coats of masonry paint. 

baser999

thegreenone said:

Why would any experienced bricklayer do that? Surely they've set themselves up for a social media slanging? It looks like Master Brickie on one side and Day One Apprentice on the other.

OP, if you know the co. perhaps you could contact and ask why such a shoddy job on your side. 

Edited:  apologies, didn't see there was a Page 2.  So Master Brickie has properly finished on one side but not the other.  But if it's single brick, I don't understand how the OPs side can look like it does?   

I did wonder that as well since OPs side has a lot of half bricks which aren’t obvious on the good side, unless they’re in another section that’s not been photographed. 

No consolation to OP, but the good side does look good

feedthecat

thegreenone said:

Why would any experienced bricklayer do that? Surely they've set themselves up for a social media slanging? It looks like Master Brickie on one side and Day One Apprentice on the other.

OP, if you know the co. perhaps you could contact and ask why such a shoddy job on your side. 

Edited:  apologies, didn't see there was a Page 2.  So Master Brickie has properly finished on one side but not the other.  But if it's single brick, I don't understand how the OPs side can look like it does?   

So it looks like they had amateurs doing it initially but then got in a proper brick layer who sorted out the neighbours side and left our side with the amateur resulting in a rectified finish on one side and a very amateur job on my side.

Given the lack of recourse, I would advise anyone in a similar situation to jointly go in with the neighbour for a two layer wall or set out expectations beforehand rather than think the neighbour will care about the finish on your side.  I think we were blindsided by this as we have helped that neighbour out in the past so expected that they would not do a terrible job.  I guess we all have different morals as if we had a builder leave the other side in that condition, we would have got it rectified, no questions asked.  Thus spell it out before or do not give your approval.

(Hard) lesson learned!

stuart45

It's quite rough on the face side, but the back looks even worse as he hasn't bothered jointing up the bottom courses. He also doesn't know how to bond in a 9 inch pier to a 4 inch wall On top of the 2 headers there should be a half bat over the centre joint, and 2 three quarters each side.
Like this.