A project that utilised a couple of metres id left from my driveway project to build ...something.
A few dry runs and few changes of mind, but finally built my raised planter over a few spare weekends.
Note: I'm not a ground worker or a bricklayer, but feel confident enough to have had a go.
A few bits to finish off and I will be coating the inner skin with a couple of coats of bitumen paint. before back filling with shingle (nearer brickwork) and soil.
I plan to then drill some weep vents through the mortar joins at low level.
Apart from sand/cement, everything was bought off eBay, i.e all the engineering bricks used for a fiver, the facing bricks for 30.00 and the coping stones for a tenner. Hence trying to make a mismatch work together with I think I have.
I have other low lying raised walls in my garden that are edged in engineering bricks so what I have built is in keeping with the rest of the property.
Comments welcome.
A few dry runs and few changes of mind, but finally built my raised planter over a few spare weekends.
Note: I'm not a ground worker or a bricklayer, but feel confident enough to have had a go.
A few bits to finish off and I will be coating the inner skin with a couple of coats of bitumen paint. before back filling with shingle (nearer brickwork) and soil.
I plan to then drill some weep vents through the mortar joins at low level.
Apart from sand/cement, everything was bought off eBay, i.e all the engineering bricks used for a fiver, the facing bricks for 30.00 and the coping stones for a tenner. Hence trying to make a mismatch work together with I think I have.
I have other low lying raised walls in my garden that are edged in engineering bricks so what I have built is in keeping with the rest of the property.
Comments welcome.
