Beechy

Thanks for the advice

There is only one tree (near the gatepost) which will be coming down. The wall was leaning before the tree grew although I'm sure it won't help the situation if left to grow.. The soil level in the garden is approx 6 inch lower than the surface of the pavement so no pressure from the garden side.

Hello, I am hoping to rebuild my leaning and cracked full brick front boundary wall. I had a couple of quotes from builders last year but now find myself with time out from work and want to do it myself. Both builders quoted to rebuild on the old footings although I guess that might have been revisited if any issues became apparent after demolition of the existing wall. Looking at lack of depth and lack of spread of the footing that I've exposed on the garden side of the wall I'm pretty sure that I'll need to dig out and replace. My question is really how do I create the necessary spread on the road side as it will need to be under the pavement. Soil type is heavy boulder clay type. Original wall built 1930's and has been leaning since we moved in 20 yrs ago, so not a new movement.

Hello and thanks to everyone involved with this group. After a summer of furlough like many others I now sadly find myself in a redundancy situation from a desk based job. Hopefully this will be time available to do something more constructive whilst the job market recovers. Summerhouse, pointing, decorating etc ticked off and next on the list is the leaning and cracked front boundary wall and then the kitchen. No hope of feet up just yet. I need some advice on tackling the wall and will post in the relevant section.