Railing on curved brick wall

[wombleboy]

In the summer I'm planning on building a dwarf garden wall with railing on the top. A secton of the wall needs to be curved and I'm wondering what my options are please.

Looking at other peoples walls, the degree of curving isn't so bad that i'll need radial bricks, but I can't decide what to do about the railings. I've noticed some people with curved walls go for straight railings between the pillars, which looks fine for a shallow curve. I think my wall will be curving just too much for this to look good though.

Searching around, I don't see anywhere that sells pre-made curved railings, but I've found a few specialist sellers who offer curved railings build to demand. Naturally they are a lot more expensive, and no doubt I'd need to buy all my railings from them (even though the rest of the wall is straight) so that they matched.

Can I buy straight railings and take them somewhere to be bent?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

They'll be bent before they're welded together not bent afterwards. Try a small local metal worker. What railings had you in mind?

 

[wombleboy]

Wrought iron railings, or steel - perhaps these ones, given how good the price is:

http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Chelsea-Wall-Railing-365x1830mm/p/154353?

 

[Langers123]

Have you considered fittings at all? rather than taking the tube to be rolled and hoping they get the angle right, you can use something like:

http://simplifiedbuilding.co.uk/store/fittings/kee-access/554-variable-angle.html

use a couple of connectors in the tube and voila.

the issue ive found is that after the rolling, the tube looks distressed and if you were not planning on painting it, can look a little odd.

Just my 2 cents.

Hope this helps.