I have taken down my old front garden wall which was single skin and i will be building a new double skin wall about 6 courses high. It is not a big wall.
The old wall was connected into the column dividing up my wall with my neighbours as we are a semi.
In the photo you can see the wall has a small hole under it where the rain water pipe passes into a metal gully which takes the water through the pavement and into the road.
Do you think i need to retain the first course of brick which is a bridge over the metal gully ?
I was thinking of cutting out the second course brick sticking out, so i could just build my new wall more independently. The column (and my old wall) was leaning outwards a little and so i don't want my new wall to be pulled out over time.
Any thought on what i do here ? Ideally i would like my wall to have a 10mm gap between it and the column, but the drain gully means i have to probably keep the lower bit in the photo.
The old wall was connected into the column dividing up my wall with my neighbours as we are a semi.
In the photo you can see the wall has a small hole under it where the rain water pipe passes into a metal gully which takes the water through the pavement and into the road.
Do you think i need to retain the first course of brick which is a bridge over the metal gully ?
I was thinking of cutting out the second course brick sticking out, so i could just build my new wall more independently. The column (and my old wall) was leaning outwards a little and so i don't want my new wall to be pulled out over time.
Any thought on what i do here ? Ideally i would like my wall to have a 10mm gap between it and the column, but the drain gully means i have to probably keep the lower bit in the photo.