According to my info. expamet isn't intended to be structural?
Garden wall advice.
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I started this thread hoping for a little help and advice.
There pages and thirty replies later in not sure that my thread has been very successful.
And we're still no closer to discovering which is better block laid upright or laid flat!
Think I'll start a fresh thread and try again.
Cheers Poe.
There pages and thirty replies later in not sure that my thread has been very successful.
And we're still no closer to discovering which is better block laid upright or laid flat!
Think I'll start a fresh thread and try again.
Cheers Poe.
Some say upright, some say flat - so why bother starting a new thread? - you'll probably get the same responses!I started this thread hoping for a little help and advice.
There pages and thirty replies later in not sure that my thread has been very successful.
And we're still no closer to discovering which is better block laid upright or laid flat!
Think I'll start a fresh thread and try again.
Cheers Poe.
You can build wall in block flat,use expansion joints every 6 metres, this will be fine for what you propose, as long as not above 2 metres, ignore anyone who suggests otherwise.
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Are you referring to the stainless steel type or the more environmentally friendly rice paper variety?
Woody tell the original poster how to build his garden wall, thats all he wants.
Build it flat.
He wants a wall not block paving.
Thanks Charlie,
I really only wanted to check that my current foundation size and double skinned wall with expansion gaps and piers would be suitable.
However once two clearly very knowledgeable guys start discussing the complex physics of differing designs without conclusion or compromise it makes it hard to know what if any changes could or should be made.
Of course if you could see my next door neighbours wall you would all realise none of this matters you just build your land up with week concrete with whatever rubbish you find and throw in then build your block wall on top with the piers built into of wood fencing posts (now rotted away) don't use any levels or lines and 25 years later it'll still be standing!
Even if it is a nasty eye sore for the neighbouring houses.
Poe
I really only wanted to check that my current foundation size and double skinned wall with expansion gaps and piers would be suitable.
However once two clearly very knowledgeable guys start discussing the complex physics of differing designs without conclusion or compromise it makes it hard to know what if any changes could or should be made.
Of course if you could see my next door neighbours wall you would all realise none of this matters you just build your land up with week concrete with whatever rubbish you find and throw in then build your block wall on top with the piers built into of wood fencing posts (now rotted away) don't use any levels or lines and 25 years later it'll still be standing!
Even if it is a nasty eye sore for the neighbouring houses.
Poe
Tell him to use these.
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I know a good Chiropractor for him.
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I know a good Chiropractor for him.
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tell you what, go for the experiment, build half and half, then come back in 10 years and tell us which one is still standing.
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