ᐅ Terrace Wall Adjacent to Neighbor – What Should We Consider?
Created on: 10 Jul 2025 18:48
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Bauherrin123
Hello forum members,
We want to separate our terraces from the neighbor, who without our consent poured a concrete base on the property line, about 17.5cm (7 inches) wide, and built his terrace there. Now it is basically possible to build a wall right on the boundary, with a maximum thickness of 17cm (6.7 inches).
The wall will be 180cm (71 inches) high and 3m (10 feet) long. It will be anchored to the house. I don’t have more details at the moment.
My questions:
Is the wall too thin at 17 or 17.5cm (6.7 or 7 inches)?
What do we need to consider? Alternatively, we could build a proper wall only on our property, or place it partly on the boundary but mostly on our land, using 24cm (9.5 inches) wide bricks. I have zero experience—does anyone have advice? The whole wall will be rendered white.
Is 180cm (71 inches) a sufficient height? I would appreciate any tips.
I will send pictures tomorrow. We have an end-of-terrace house and want to separate our terrace from the neighbor’s. Now he has already built his terrace and laid the foundation for the wall. The foundation is about 17cm (6.7 inches) wide and exactly on the property line, so it lies partly on his and partly on our property. The wall is going to be built on this foundation. What should be considered in this case? I will gladly share pictures tomorrow—it’s too dark now.
Kind regards,
Bauherrin123
We want to separate our terraces from the neighbor, who without our consent poured a concrete base on the property line, about 17.5cm (7 inches) wide, and built his terrace there. Now it is basically possible to build a wall right on the boundary, with a maximum thickness of 17cm (6.7 inches).
The wall will be 180cm (71 inches) high and 3m (10 feet) long. It will be anchored to the house. I don’t have more details at the moment.
My questions:
Is the wall too thin at 17 or 17.5cm (6.7 or 7 inches)?
What do we need to consider? Alternatively, we could build a proper wall only on our property, or place it partly on the boundary but mostly on our land, using 24cm (9.5 inches) wide bricks. I have zero experience—does anyone have advice? The whole wall will be rendered white.
Is 180cm (71 inches) a sufficient height? I would appreciate any tips.
I will send pictures tomorrow. We have an end-of-terrace house and want to separate our terrace from the neighbor’s. Now he has already built his terrace and laid the foundation for the wall. The foundation is about 17cm (6.7 inches) wide and exactly on the property line, so it lies partly on his and partly on our property. The wall is going to be built on this foundation. What should be considered in this case? I will gladly share pictures tomorrow—it’s too dark now.
Kind regards,
Bauherrin123
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motorradsilke21 Jul 2025 10:27nordanney schrieb:
@wiltshire
I agree with you on everything (I planted 40m (131 feet) of red beech myself two years ago). BUT: You have been following the thread and this is about privacy screening and blocking off Müller. Ideally immediately and permanently. As sad as it is, in my opinion, only the cherry laurel remains since it best meets all the requirements – and unfortunately is also the worst choice. Japanese laurel or yew would also meet the conditions but are more expensive.
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nordanney21 Jul 2025 10:39motorradsilke schrieb:
Photinia or yew would also meet the requirements, but they are more expensive.No, photinia and especially yew grow significantly slower.M
motorradsilke21 Jul 2025 11:30nordanney schrieb:
No, glossy photinia and especially yew grow significantly slower. Glossy photinia grows at a similar rate to cherry laurel, at least in our area. Yew grows much slower. That’s also why I mentioned the price—you can buy taller shrubs accordingly.
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Schorsch_baut21 Jul 2025 13:49Actually, you would need to fully cover the garden so that no one from the upper floors can look in.
chand1986 schrieb:
Instead of cherry laurel, native shrubs work just as well.
The whole "privacy screen for the entire garden" thing is completely unfamiliar to me. We have a 90cm (35 inch) fence between the gardens and only the terrace is enclosed with walls. Otherwise, with such narrow gardens, it would look terrible.
In general, it is agreed that you can have shrubs and fruit trees as columns or trained plants (espalier) directly along the boundary fence.
That's it.
This is how townhouses work, especially when the gardens aren’t wider than 10m (33 feet). Like a small garden plot next to your own terrace.
Everything else applies to large gardens of detached houses or semi-detached houses.
I find the whole idea where everyone wants privacy screens starting at 1.8m (6 feet) to be able to walk around invisibly in their own garden quite strange.
Is it different in the Ruhr area?
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chand198621 Jul 2025 14:45Schorsch_baut schrieb:
Actually, the garden would need to be fully covered so that no one from the upper floors can look in. In our old apartment, the balconies were directly above the ground-floor apartments’ gardens, which were lined up side by side.