Building a wall

Seriously said:
Best is to DIY. Get a drive around where you see people building. Ask for bricklayer and make contact with someone that can build. Decide where you are going to get the bricks and sand from and ask them advice about building the wall. Also ask them or the local municipality for names of a draughtsman that can put the wall on plan. Get the bricklayer to do the job you manage the job. Maybe take longer but will be cost effective in the end.
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Be very careful about going down this road if its going to be a load bearing wall or a retaining wall....
 
Funny this thread came about now...
My boundary wall is getting old and have been meaning to get it fixed for a while. It is single face brick and the concrete is starting to crumble in some spots.
I got a quote just over a year ago to get it re-built and the quote was around R70k (corner property so lot of wall). I chickened out.

Neighbours across the road have been adding an extension the last few weeks. Double story rooms and a garage. The workmanship of the build is excellent so I asked the guy running the show to quote me on mine.
Double brick, pillars, 1.8M, etc... R40k. Huge difference to first quote.
Sand and 50 cement bags arrived today. Bricks tomorrow. Start tearing down and rebuilding on Fri.
Going facebrick again. I like maintenance free.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Be very careful about going down this road if its going to be a load bearing wall or a retaining wall....
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The only difference would be that it must be approved by a structural engineer or architect and there the same draughtsman or Municipality would have their contacts for referrals. Of course that would be extra cost but it would have been the same or maybe cheaper than getting a "contractor" to do the job at an extreme profit if ever such contactor complete the job after paying him a HUGE required deposit.
 
Seriously said:
The only difference would be that it must be approved by a structural engineer or architect and there the same draughtsman or Municipality would have their contacts for referrals. Of course that would be extra cost but it would have been the same or maybe cheaper than getting a "contractor" to do the job at an extreme profit if ever such contactor complete the job after paying him a HUGE required deposit.
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For sure, but just be careful of the contractor used... the engineer will give a set of specs that need to be followed.
 
Jabberwocky said:
For a cage with rocks in it!? I must get into the construction business!
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My thoughts as well, I wanted to do a Gabian wall for my retaining wall... but if thats what it will cost, then I will skip that idea.
 
JacquesZA said:
Any idea if a cost per meter for a brick wall, plastered and painted?

I want to put up a wall in the front of our cluster and it needs to be in "tuscon style, and painted.

What can i expect per meter
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I haven't done this for a while, but a quick calc would be in the range of R1500.

1.8m high one brick wall with 440mm x 440mm pillars every 4 meter including copings. One coat plaster both sides. Paint both sides. Excavation 500mm deep 600mm wide. Concrete 300mm deep.

No allowance for excavations in rock or foundations in bad material; retaining design; gates, motors, electric fencing.
 
Any build a boundary wall recently? How are the pre cast walls (not the vibracrete) ones?
 
Can recommend flashbuild for a quick easy boundary wall. About 1500 per mt and 60m done in 2 weeks plastered and off site
 
Rather go wood instead of prefab which doesn't absorb sound (and i think they look hideous .. sorry).

25 year guarantee from a good company in honeydew. Their name escapes me but if you're interested i can post tomorrow.
 
maumau said:
Rather go wood instead of prefab which doesn't absorb sound (and i think they look hideous .. sorry).
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Reason why City Of Cape Town passed new bylaws governing the appearance of fences, especially prefab. Must say my unpainted prefab makes me feel embarrassed every time I see it (on my long list of things to fix around the house).
 
The first order of business is to ensure that said Wall has 19000+ posts...
 
brianj74 said:
Mine was 2.8m
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Ah ok, that is fairly high. I believe in CPT you can only go up to 2.1m without building plans.

It also seems the cost of an actual brick wall is around R1500 per metre as well, so that would be better than flashbuild right?
 
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I keep seeing square m2 thrown around in here, walls are measured in running m not in m2.
 
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