Having a new single skin brick garden wall built to replace the old.
Brick wall approx. 1 meter high. I will also be adding close board fence to make the total height 2 meters. essentially replacing what was already in place.
In places, the wall retains about 3 courses worth of my garden and I noticed that in this area the old bricks were shot pretty badly.
Aside from repointing as required is there anything I can do to help preserve the wall, generally and in this area in particular?
My initial thoughts are:
Apply some kind of paint on water seal to part or all of the wall.
Add trench with gravel behind the portion of the wall that retains the garden. I was thinking of recycling some old slabs and putting them on end to hold the gravel in place.
What do you think?
Brick wall approx. 1 meter high. I will also be adding close board fence to make the total height 2 meters. essentially replacing what was already in place.
In places, the wall retains about 3 courses worth of my garden and I noticed that in this area the old bricks were shot pretty badly.
Aside from repointing as required is there anything I can do to help preserve the wall, generally and in this area in particular?
My initial thoughts are:
Apply some kind of paint on water seal to part or all of the wall.
Add trench with gravel behind the portion of the wall that retains the garden. I was thinking of recycling some old slabs and putting them on end to hold the gravel in place.
What do you think?