Browse Forums Paving & Concreting Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 4Apr 14, 2011 8:36 pm Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 6Apr 14, 2011 9:51 pm Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 13Jun 12, 2011 9:43 pm That is where the planing comes in, for us the brick fence can be built 'around' the concrete even if we had it somewhat wrong. What fence are you planning on doing, maybe I may be of help. Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 14Jun 12, 2011 10:04 pm We have finally found a lovely brickie to do our front fence for around $6K! Much better than the $15K of our first quote. He actually digs the footings by hand and mixes the concrete himself, so if we had already done the driveway he would be very careful not to chip it, and no heavy machinery or trucks either. Blue, I can't see a problem with it just as long as the brickies know to be careful! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 15Jun 13, 2011 3:43 pm Thanks stormy. How deep will your fence footings be? Do you know how much out of $6k is just for the footings? Our concrete guy quoted us $2.5k just for the fence footings... 600mm deep Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 16Jun 13, 2011 5:06 pm Hi Blue, I don't actually have a breakdown of everything in the quote, but the $6.6K for 6 piers, 470x470 wide (2x2 bricks) and 1.5m high includes everything except the Council dispensation (~$200) and the steel infills (~$1000), and includes GST as well. The footings will be max 650 deep. We will not be having an electronic gate that requires a concrete pad for the runner. Was this included in your quote too? We also have the bricks, so this doesn't include those either. Due to our wider cross over/driveway, the 'length' of fence is 10.7m plus one extra pier on the other side of the driveway (see pic of plan in above post!). I may have a complete breakdown of costings for the most expensive quote ($15K), but not really worth digging it out as I think they are way over priced anyway! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 17Jun 16, 2011 10:58 pm Hi everyone, I've been looking at this topic because we are actually now looking at putting the metal "infills" between each pier in our front brick fence. I don't know the correct term, so please excuse me! Our fence was done a couple of months ago. We got the footings done by the same guy who laid all the other concrete on our property (ie. driveway, alfresco, down side of house) and he charged us $1800. This included 7 pier footings at approx 500x500x500 and the other footings, for the brickwork between the piers, at approx 300x300x300. All up it was approx 15 metres of fence. We provided the bricks (we already had about 500 leftover from the build, that our SS kindly let us keep) so we only had to purchase another 1200. And we had some left over. So that was another approx $1000. We also bought the pier cappings ourselves (8 @ approx $50 = $400). The 'brickie' provided the sand, cement, time/labour to lay the bricks and cappings, for which he charged $2000. There were no steel infills and the piers aren't filled in with concrete or the like, but still it was an absolute bargain. And they even did a great job. I would use them again. They even came back the following day (at no extra charge) to increase the height of one of the piers, as it was going to be too short to hang a high gate off (as the land slopes). In all, the fence was approx 15M long, including 7 piers plus another pier on the other side of the crossover. The piers were 1.5M high, with the brick wall in between the piers being approx 6 brick courses high with a header course laid. And the whole thing was completed in a day (with a team of brickies)! In total we paid $1800 for footings, $1000 for bricks, $400 for cappings, and $2000 for it to be laid = $5200. We, upon our concretor's advice, laid our driveway after the fence was done, and are so glad that we waited. It looks fantastic having the driveway laid perfectly up to the brick fence. It looks so neat. I would definitely recommend waiting. And on another note, if anyone can recommend where I can buy the steel/metal/aluminium (whatever they are!?) infills that go between the piers, it would be greatly appreciated. We are in Melbourne's South Eastern suburbs. Does anyone know do we measure it up ourselves and then order it and install it ourselves, or do they do the install aswell as supplying it? Any advice/help/recommendations would help. Thanks. Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 18Jun 16, 2011 11:14 pm There are many places that will measure and quote and install the infill for you. It the easiest part of the whole fence. We did some research and it's very easy to even install it yourself as each infill is only hold in place by a few screws on both sides. Look in your local newspaper there will be a few people / company doing it. You can also look up any steel fabrication places they will most likely do up and length / choice you like, then just install them yourself. If you want pm me I can give you the details of a few place we found over in the west (but have not yet used). I must have your brickie details! Where did you buy your pier capping? We got quoted 100 each cap! Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 19Jun 16, 2011 11:18 pm blueblueblue How deep will your fence footings be? Do you know how much out of $6k is just for the footings? Our concrete guy quoted us $2.5k just for the fence footings... 600mm deep Ours was 15m of footing 500 wide x 600 deep with a strip (6m x 600mm) for a future sliding gate, price was $2.1k including 8 steel bars for the pier later Re: driveway concrete or brick fence first? 20Jun 17, 2011 10:53 am fruitty blueblueblue How deep will your fence footings be? Do you know how much out of $6k is just for the footings? Our concrete guy quoted us $2.5k just for the fence footings... 600mm deep Ours was 15m of footing 500 wide x 600 deep with a strip (6m x 600mm) for a future sliding gate, price was $2.1k including 8 steel bars for the pier later Thanks for that fruitty To my understanding early saw cuts are to control shrinkage cracks, so doing them now would be pointless. Control joints may reduce ugly cracking during periods of soil… 3 9863 Hi all I need a guidance on how far I need to space expansion joints in the concrete driveway and its type (keyway/foam.) Contraction joints are at 3m max for a 125 slab. Thanks 0 10947 |