Garden wall strength if partly demolished

[Gain12]

Hi, first post so sorry if this is vaguely in the wrong area.

I have a long curved wall that i want to partly/completely remove. Dimensions are half brick thick, 2m high and about 7m long. It has pillars both ends and i want to remove approx three quarters of it.

My question is, is this going to be safe to leave say 2 or 3 meters "unsuppported" or does it all need to be removed back to the other pillar? Appreciate thats pretty vague but worth a shot i thought.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I wouldn't leave anything unsupported by a pillar. sounds like a death trap waiting to happen already.

 

[tony1851]

If it is one-half brick thick and 2m high, it's amazing it has stood at all.

 

[Gain12]

Well as far as I know its stood since the house was built in 2005. Maybe im remembering it wrong, maybe the bricks are full length but they are definately narrow face on.

Seems better to just remove the whole lot then to be safe?

 

[tony1851]

Come to think of it, if the wall is curved, they probably laid the bricks across the thickness of the wall as 'headers', so that the curvature can be taken up by having 'wedge-shaped' perpend mortar joints. So it may look at first glance only one-half brick this, when it is actually one full brick thick.

Play safe and drop the whole lot, as some of its strength against wind loading will have been derived from the curved shape.

 

[ree]

I hate to see the loss of brickwork walls esp. curved walls. Think what might replace them!

If the wall has copings of headers then the wall is a full brick thick.

OP, determine exactly what the thickness is, and the centre dimensions between the pillars?

You can always add pillars and tie them in.

 

[Gain12]

Thanks for the replies, ill probably end up taking it all back just to be sure but thanks for the other pillar idea anyway, more options to mull over.