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"I want a garden wall built, about 4 metres long by 1 metre hi, how much do you think it would cost ?"
We were quoted over £1k 10 years ago for similar including all materials & labour. Ex went to college, learnt brick building & did it himself instead. |
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over a year ago
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"We were quoted over £1k 10 years ago for similar including all materials & labour. Ex went to college, learnt brick building & did it himself instead. "
See, this is the way forward. How much did the course cost? |
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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago
Stoke area |
"I want a garden wall built, about 4 metres long by 1 metre hi, how much do you think it would cost ?"
Oooo I like riddles.....4 metres long and a metre high. Erm and how many bricks per metre squared. ...? What's the labour costs sorry don't think I can do this one.  |
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"I want a garden wall built, about 4 metres long by 1 metre hi, how much do you think it would cost ?
Oooo I like riddles.....4 metres long and a metre high. Erm and how many bricks per metre squared. ...? What's the labour costs sorry don't think I can do this one. "
It's just not a case of putting bricks down in Lego on the carpet
You will need foundations . Wether it's single brick or double
What type of brick as well
I would say anything less than 2 k and it will be sub standard
Materiel and workmanship |
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"I want a garden wall built, about 4 metres long by 1 metre hi, how much do you think it would cost ?
Oooo I like riddles.....4 metres long and a metre high. Erm and how many bricks per metre squared. ...? What's the labour costs sorry don't think I can do this one.
It's just not a case of putting bricks down in Lego on the carpet
You will need foundations . Wether it's single brick or double
What type of brick as well
I would say anything less than 2 k and it will be sub standard
Materiel and workmanship "
Seriously? I doubt the foundations would need to be that deep and 4x1m is small for a wall. 2k is ridiculous - its a day or two worth of work max. |
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"We were quoted over £1k 10 years ago for similar including all materials & labour. Ex went to college, learnt brick building & did it himself instead.
See, this is the way forward. How much did the course cost?"
His work paid - some kind of tax dodge I think as they all did courses but it couldn't be work related!! It was a City & Guilds course |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I want a garden wall built, about 4 metres long by 1 metre hi, how much do you think it would cost ?£127.46p  your so precise lol"
and way below the other quotes, jobs looking good |
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By *riskygaz OP Man
over a year ago
birmingham |
"I was quoted £1800 for 8 steps in my garden including a small wall on one side of the steps. It's dearer than you think! "
bloody hell are we really talking that kind of money for a small wall, it would take a pro a day I would have thought, I have changed my mind I don't want a wall lol
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"From an official fab builder I'd say £900 to a £1000 including material
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My rough estimate too.. labout cost would increase though if building on concrete and if i would need to get hold of a concrete digger to build a foundation etc |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"From an official fab builder I'd say £900 to a £1000 including material
My rough estimate too.. labout cost would increase though if building on concrete and if i would need to get hold of a concrete digger to build a foundation etc"
It is a garden wall 1 m high not sure a digger would be reguired other than a strong back and a shovel  and plus v a t of course |
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dig foundation and pour footings - 1 day
lay 5 courses of block 10 blocks long pillar either end aprox 70 blocks (or just one end if tied into existing wall aprox 60 blocks) and make good - aprox 2 days
3 days labour @ £150 per day
aprox £150 materials
total £600 inc.
brick wall will clearly cost more.
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By *izzy.Woman
over a year ago
Stoke area |
"I was quoted £1800 for 8 steps in my garden including a small wall on one side of the steps. It's dearer than you think! bloody hell are we really talking that kind of money for a small wall, it would take a pro a day I would have thought, I have changed my mind I don't want a wall lol"
I couldn't afford the steps, so I got a spade, made the dangerous irregular steps into a slope and put in some big rocks. Rockery / slope. No steps and no bill. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"well that's another full day busting a gut in the garden, just dug up a tree stumb,  it did not bloody come out easily."
Not an easy task to do . And bloody hard work well done mate |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cant believe how expensive this is. Rethinking the landscaping of the backgarden now  "
I very much doubt your back garden can be improved upon by any stretch of imagination. x |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cant believe how expensive this is. Rethinking the landscaping of the backgarden now
I very much doubt your back garden can be improved upon by any stretch of imagination. x"
Smooth |
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By *osieWoman
over a year ago
Wembley |
You will need 476 LBC Common Brick 65mm to build a 4m x 1m double skinned wall. These are usually sold in packs of 390. So, you'll need two packs at a total cost of £614.26 delivered or if the bricklayer is supplying, then £374.86 + delivery
You will also need 3.264 cu m of concrete for the foundation, which costs approximately £100 per cubic meter, so, £326.40
Materials required will be brick ties, cement and sand
You will need to pay a labourer to dig for the foundation which will cost £55 and then you will need to pay for the excess soil to be removed
A bricklayer will charge you anywhere between £85 - £125 per day. The work involved in laying 476 bricks in a double skinned wall with brick ties and pointing will take 1.5 days but the cost will be for 2 days
I think that anyone charging you less than £1,500 will make a loss
And no, I am not a builder but I have access to calculators on the Internet |
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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago
Falkirk |
"You will need 476 LBC Common Brick 65mm to build a 4m x 1m double skinned wall. These are usually sold in packs of 390. So, you'll need two packs at a total cost of £614.26 delivered or if the bricklayer is supplying, then £374.86 + delivery
You will also need 3.264 cu m of concrete for the foundation, which costs approximately £100 per cubic meter, so, £326.40
Materials required will be brick ties, cement and sand
You will need to pay a labourer to dig for the foundation which will cost £55 and then you will need to pay for the excess soil to be removed
A bricklayer will charge you anywhere between £85 - £125 per day. The work involved in laying 476 bricks in a double skinned wall with brick ties and pointing will take 1.5 days but the cost will be for 2 days
I think that anyone charging you less than £1,500 will make a loss
And no, I am not a builder but I have access to calculators on the Internet "
You can mix your own concrete for a third of that cost with ballast and cement. But the rest isn't far off. I would say £1000-£1200 is about average  |
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"You will need 476 LBC Common Brick 65mm to build a 4m x 1m double skinned wall. These are usually sold in packs of 390. So, you'll need two packs at a total cost of £614.26 delivered or if the bricklayer is supplying, then £374.86 + delivery
You will also need 3.264 cu m of concrete for the foundation, which costs approximately £100 per cubic meter, so, £326.40
Materials required will be brick ties, cement and sand
You will need to pay a labourer to dig for the foundation which will cost £55 and then you will need to pay for the excess soil to be removed
A bricklayer will charge you anywhere between £85 - £125 per day. The work involved in laying 476 bricks in a double skinned wall with brick ties and pointing will take 1.5 days but the cost will be for 2 days
I think that anyone charging you less than £1,500 will make a loss
And no, I am not a builder but I have access to calculators on the Internet "
It's £100 a day for a labourer in southampton and £150 for a bricky |
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By *osieWoman
over a year ago
Wembley |
"You will need 476 LBC Common Brick 65mm to build a 4m x 1m double skinned wall. These are usually sold in packs of 390. So, you'll need two packs at a total cost of £614.26 delivered or if the bricklayer is supplying, then £374.86 + delivery
You will also need 3.264 cu m of concrete for the foundation, which costs approximately £100 per cubic meter, so, £326.40
Materials required will be brick ties, cement and sand
You will need to pay a labourer to dig for the foundation which will cost £55 and then you will need to pay for the excess soil to be removed
A bricklayer will charge you anywhere between £85 - £125 per day. The work involved in laying 476 bricks in a double skinned wall with brick ties and pointing will take 1.5 days but the cost will be for 2 days
I think that anyone charging you less than £1,500 will make a loss
And no, I am not a builder but I have access to calculators on the Internet
You can mix your own concrete for a third of that cost with ballast and cement. But the rest isn't far off. I would say £1000-£1200 is about average "
You can, I couldn't 
I want to return from work each evening to a nice clean driveway |
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