Old garden walls

[a twig]

Even though you’ve pointed it out I’m struggling to see the height issue - looking really good!

 

[stuart45]

Looks really good to me as well.
One of the things that often gets forgotten with arch construction is the gauging of the bed joints. If the brickwork finishes slightly higher, you get a really thick bed joint over the top of the arch. With some arches, like segmental ones, there aren't enough courses to adjust the joints, so it's up to the designer to adjust the radius of the arch so it works out in brickwork.

 

[Flyfisher]

Magnificent!

 

[Cubist]

As the First Lady and I were both frequent business travellers and, more often than we would like, to different destinations, we each dropped into the habit of leaving little notes for the other when leaving the house. Whist these began as small billet-doux, after a time they morphed to include little memory joggers or tasks that one would like the other to deal with before the absentee came back home. This morning I was, as always, pleased to find a small note to tell me.. well I won't bore you with the superfluous details... but suffice it to say there was a rather odd and cryptic message that required further clarification - which I have now received. As a consequence I have resolved, yet again, to ensure that I log off completely when I leave the pc at any time. You see, since visiting the Lost Gardens of Heligan many years ago she has had a hankering for a walled garden of her own and clearly she now finds, courtesy of perusing @overlander matt 's building efforts, that the wooden fence boundary I previously constructed for her vegetable garden is no longer suitable.

The cryptic message on this mornings note reads - "Reclaimed bricks/stones - how many?"

Thanks Matt.

 

[Flyfisher]

The First Lady clearly has good taste In fact, that wall has rekindled my own constructional urges as its a lovey thing to behold and even more so, I'm sure, for Matt as he has the satisfaction of being the creator of something that should stand the test of time. Sadly, I really have no need of such a project though I've long wanted to find an excuse to build a crinkle-crankel wall. The main excuse is that it would need far fewer bricks than a doubled-up straight wall and that's about as far as I've got, but I keep looking.

 

[paulc]

The cryptic message on this mornings note reads - "Reclaimed bricks/stones - how many?"

Surely the answer is "all of them".
That way, you know you'll have enough to build the wall to the First Lady's specification.

 

[overlander matt]

As the First Lady and I were both frequent business travellers and, more often than we would like, to different destinations, we each dropped into the habit of leaving little notes for the other when leaving the house. Whist these began as small billet-doux, after a time they morphed to include little memory joggers or tasks that one would like the other to deal with before the absentee came back home. This morning I was, as always, pleased to find a small note to tell me.. well I won't bore you with the superfluous details... but suffice it to say there was a rather odd and cryptic message that required further clarification - which I have now received. As a consequence I have resolved, yet again, to ensure that I log off completely when I leave the pc at any time. You see, since visiting the Lost Gardens of Heligan many years ago she has had a hankering for a walled garden of her own and clearly she now finds, courtesy of perusing @overlander matt 's building efforts, that the wooden fence boundary I previously constructed for her vegetable garden is no longer suitable.

The cryptic message on this mornings note reads - "Reclaimed bricks/stones - how many?"

Thanks Matt.

I'm very pleased to hear the wall has met the approval of the First Lady. There have been times over the past three months when a fence would have been a more popular option here.

Approximately 4500 went into this section of wall, of these 1000 were replacements - some courses used larger 75mm bricks and others 60mm. It worked out in the end. Not that it is the end just yet!

The question is when to do the next wall?

 

[Cubist]

Surely the answer is "all of them".
That way, you know you'll have enough to build the wall to the First Lady's specification.

No! I've only ever made one open ended commitment to the First Lady and she already takes full advantage of that.

I also may be conflating a few unrelated things here but at present she's in Texas negotiating a new piece of business and I understand that someone has a rather pointless wall they are wanting to build there. My guess is though that the new tariffs could put the kibosh on that - with any luck.