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Garden and boundary walls, piers, extension brickwork, repointing, stonework and structural crack repairs for homes across Reading and the surrounding villages. Fully insured, free written quote.
Walls and coursing
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A boundary wall can reach two metres under permitted development, but only one metre where it sits beside a road or footpath, which we check before quoting.
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Piers, copings and a foundation worth the name, because a trench no deeper than a spade is the reason walls lean.
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Cavity ties staggered, 900mm apart horizontally and 450mm vertically, closing to 300mm centres at every opening.
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The coursing is worked out before a lintel, arch or soldier course is laid, so nothing has to be adjusted at the end.
Mortar and joints
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Reading's Victorian terraces are solid lime-built walls, and lime is what they want back, since lime erodes in place of the brick.
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Cement harder than the brick forces frost into the face rather than the joint, and that is why the faces blow.
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Twice the joint width is the raking depth, hand-cut where a grinder would widen it.
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Sand, colour and joint profile matched to the original, so new pointing does not stand out.
Repairs and stone
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On a terrace the pointing has to match next door as well as your own, so samples go up on the wall before any mix is decided.
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Blown bricks are cut out individually and replaced with a match, never rendered over to cover the problem.
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Stone walling, cills, quoins and heads in natural or reconstituted stone, laid on the bed it was quarried on.
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Cracks are stitched with helical bars across the joints, after the cause of the movement has been identified.
Brickwork specialists in Reading
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.