Building a front wall...couple of questions

Lex Luthor

Myself & my next door neighbour are thinking about building a front boundary wall in front of both our houses and between the 2 gardens. We are the 2 houses in the semi detach attached together.
Both houses were built in phase 2 of the estate and none of the houses in phase 1 & 2 have walls at the front.
However, all houses in phases 3, 4 & 5 have them.
It’s not going to be a big wall, just 2 blocks high, with a brick capping and they will be finished to the same as the walls in the other phases so as to keep with the rest of the estate.
Do I need planning permission to get this done?

If we can go ahead, we would probably plan to rope in a few friends and do it ourselves over the weekend.
Does anybody have any idea of the types of mixes I need for mortar between the blocks/bricks, for the foundation of the wall. The front face of the wall needs first to be rendered to cover the blocks and then has pebble dash so I believe the cement mix to take the pebble dash is different to that of the in between block mix.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Tom

williamb

These are the regulations.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZSI600Y2001.html#ZZSI600Y2001SCHED2
See class 5.

Summary :- you can build a wall in front of the house to a height of 1.2 metres (2 metres elsewhere), and if the wall is visible from a public area it must be plastered or rendered.

So you should be fine.

Lex Luthor

williamb wrote:

These are the regulations.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZSI600Y2001.html#ZZSI600Y2001SCHED2
See class 5.

Summary :- you can build a wall in front of the house to a height of 1.2 metres (2 metres elsewhere), and if the wall is visible from a public area it must be plastered or rendered.

So you should be fine.

Thanks Will.

tapest

If you are building blocks on edge, ie a 4" wall then check out bricky tool

http://brickytool.com:8080/bricky/std/index02.jsp
http://www.rte.ie/tv/aboutthehouse/series3/5itema.html
I saw it at RDS demo....seems good.
You can buy direct from them cheaper than RDS show special price

Use proper mortar not sand with a handful of lime thrown in. Adding "mortiser" from builders yard is another option. Don't forget you can get a "tub" of mortar delivered, and if you ask for a retarder in it its supposed to be usable for 36 hrs. Its cheap enough and no mixing....ah sure the job's halk done already...lol
regards
t