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Walls and piers
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Two metres is the permitted development ceiling for a boundary wall, dropping to one metre where it runs beside a road or its footpath, so your address gets checked.
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Foundations, piers and copings done properly, since a wall set in a spade-deep trench leans within a few winters.
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Wall ties at 900mm horizontally and 450mm vertically, staggered, and tightened to 300mm centres around every opening.
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Nothing is laid until the arches, lintels and soldier courses are set out, so the coursing lands right at the end.
Lime pointing
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A solid pre-1919 wall was built in lime and wants lime back, because lime is meant to be the part that erodes, not the brick.
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Put hard cement on a soft brick and the frost goes into the face instead of the joint, which is what makes old walls spall.
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Raked to twice the joint width, by hand where a grinder would open it up.
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Colour, sand and joint profile matched to what is there, so the new work does not read as a patch.
Bargate and stone
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Bargate stone, the honey-coloured sandstone quarried around Guildford, is repaired in reclaimed stone as the quarries are worked out.
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Blown and spalled bricks are cut out one at a time and matched in, not rendered over to hide them.
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Helical bars bedded across the joints stitch a crack, but only after we have established what moved and stopped it.
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Stacks rebuilt, releaded and repointed, flaunching renewed and the pots left secure on top.
Brickwork specialists in Guildford
Frequently asked questions
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Send your postcode, what you would like doing, and a few photographs of the space as it is now.
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We look at the wall before we price anything. Repointing one that is sound risks the brick faces.
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You get the quote in writing, itemised line by line, so you can see what each part of the work costs.
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Happy with it? We agree dates in writing before anyone turns up, and you are fully insured throughout.
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Garden and boundary walls, piers, extension brickwork, repointing, stonework and structural crack repairs for homes across Guildford and the villages around it. Fully insured, free written quote.