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I've had another bricky out and he's says the reason the footings are flush with the ground level in places are it would've been to save them digging so much soil out but still get a good thick footing. He said he'd have liked to have 1 course below ground but he's seen and worked on worse. I...

It's a double skin wall and yes the piers are 18"

aren't the footings supposed to be 100mm wider either side of the wall though?

Well my bricky was going to charge me £1 per brick laid and he turned up WITHOUT a spirt level, tape measure or a spade to lay the footings! (I wish I was joking) £200 per day for a GOOD bricky sounds good to me.

The pillars are going to be 2 bricks x 2 bricks.

Thank you both for your input. On closer inspection the footings aren't wide enough either!

I've just had some footings laid for a 4ft high double skinned garden wall. The bricky who's doing the job doesn't seem to have gone deep enough as the top of footings are almost level with the surrounding ground in places. Apart from the fact that the footings may be visible after the walls...