Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design Re: Matching retaining wall bricks to house 7Aug 06, 2010 3:46 pm Just give it a go with the closest you can find... if it ends up look like bollocks just render over it! Cheers Cozmo ______________________________ Building a PD Heywood 29 http://fromevetoeternity.blogspot.com/ Re: Matching retaining wall bricks to house 8Aug 06, 2010 3:50 pm Cozmo if it ends up look like bollocks just render over it! see, for me that's a totally unacceptable solution. I think I'm one of the (what seems to be) very few people out there that just cannot STAND render (sorry to everyone who has it/likes it). Re: Matching retaining wall bricks to house 9Aug 07, 2010 10:21 pm sweetime Cozmo if it ends up look like bollocks just render over it! see, for me that's a totally unacceptable solution. I think I'm one of the (what seems to be) very few people out there that just cannot STAND render (sorry to everyone who has it/likes it). Then use a different type of cladding... i dont know maybe stack stone.. or you could just knock it down... or have some sort of shrub/ground cover thats hungs over it... or Cheers Cozmo ______________________________ Building a PD Heywood 29 http://fromevetoeternity.blogspot.com/ Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5987 Yeah my reasoning is just that those house posts are designed for vertical load not lateral. I just didnt want to risk interfering with the existing house… 4 11603 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16509 |