Average cost of garden wall

[jayc89]

We're going to have our boundary wall replaced, it's > 150 years old and has a pretty nasty lean on it. 

 

In total the section is 30m long, so we're going to go for a more chunky 9" English bond wall. The first quote has come through at £300/sqm excluding prep (knocking down old) or groundwork (laying new concrete foundation). Nothing special about it, no reclaimed bricks or anything. We're based in Yorkshire.

 

This seems pretty steep to me, a quick Google suggests £200-£250 inc. foundations, but those estimates are a few months out now. Am I way off?

Edited October 10, 2022 by jayc89

[nod]

Get a few quotes 

Things are finally starting to slow dow in the private side of the building trade 

[PeterW]

@jayc89how tall is this wall..??! £300sqm for a brick wall seems to assume an expensive brick as there are 104/m in a solid bond plus mortar and labour - what is the brick currently and could you re-use them ..?

[jayc89]

2 hours ago, PeterW said:

@jayc89how tall is this wall..??! £300sqm for a brick wall seems to assume an expensive brick as there are 104/m in a solid bond plus mortar and labour - what is the brick currently and could you re-use them ..?

 

That would have been useful info, wouldn't it. 1.8m. 

 

The original wall's built using lime mortar, it's that old. We could probably re-use some of the bricks, but wouldn't have enough for the full job (we're making it taller in areas) so the cost of sourcing matching bricks, cleaning up the existing ones etc would probably negate any savings. 

[PeterW]

If they are old imperials then it may be worth splitting them properly and cleaning them and selling them - they go for min £1 each on Facebook and other places. 
 

108sqm is around 6,000 bricks or around 15 packs - that’s not a bad delivery so you should be able to chase a decent deal with a BM. Huws Gray sometimes also have some decent deals - you can get down to £350/thou or less if you don’t need to perfect match a house or similar