Recent content by Will Hay

Has anybody used a gabion structure to solve a similar problem

Someone mentioned that if it did collapse and affected the house behind then we may be liable

Here is the house behind

The house behind is about twenty - twenty five feet away I will take a photo to indicate

Sorry mate I am just asking for advice The soil behind is a mix of clay and rocks/ rubble from an old ditch if you look at the original pics A house was build on site of a derelict cottage a number of years before it sits about 30-35 feet back on its property. The wall foundations are not...

Understand that it will take up space but firstly I have to prevent the existing wall from collapsing I can’t afford €20,000 and I can assure you that there will be other costs as other parts of the garden be affected by construction Having said that I need something that will work - in your...

Ok folks here is an update on this …. Had a civil engineer who called today to view the wall and agreed that it will fall in 5 days , 5 months or 5 years hard to tell but he could see where it will break through He came with two suggestions Suggestion 1 - remove wall and dig a huge and wide...

Apologies for wrong description, there is no slope as you mentioned it is upright. The base is about 18" I'd guess Does this wall need to be addressed? From your opinion will it collapse at some time?

So the guy who built the wall was quite elderly and probably shuffled off his moral coil This is what I have left to deal with - there are some visible cracks in the wall you may see from the photos and also a section by the patio area is sagging Do you guys think this wall needs to be fixed...

Longer view...

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Next up are photos of the current state....

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Some more pictures from the start of the construction...

Here is the finished wall/ garden in 2006/2007