Hello everyone,
This spring, we finally want to start work on the front garden wall and the flower bed borders in front of the house. So far, my wife and I have planned to build the wall/borders using conventional masonry bricks. Unfortunately, we haven’t found any bricks that really impressed us.
We have now discovered that there are facing bricks available, which could be used to cover standard concrete block walls. There is a much wider and more creative selection in this category.
My question: Has anyone on the forum had experience with this? What are your thoughts—are we overlooking any significant disadvantages of such a construction? The wall/border will have a height of 45–65cm (18–26 inches), due to the slope of the street in front of our house. We would reinforce the concrete block wall accordingly, as it will be backfilled with topsoil.
I have uploaded a few pictures to show what I mean, the type of brick we have chosen, a photo of our house (currently without anything in front), and a sketch of our rough plan.
Looking forward to helpful comments
This spring, we finally want to start work on the front garden wall and the flower bed borders in front of the house. So far, my wife and I have planned to build the wall/borders using conventional masonry bricks. Unfortunately, we haven’t found any bricks that really impressed us.
We have now discovered that there are facing bricks available, which could be used to cover standard concrete block walls. There is a much wider and more creative selection in this category.
My question: Has anyone on the forum had experience with this? What are your thoughts—are we overlooking any significant disadvantages of such a construction? The wall/border will have a height of 45–65cm (18–26 inches), due to the slope of the street in front of our house. We would reinforce the concrete block wall accordingly, as it will be backfilled with topsoil.
I have uploaded a few pictures to show what I mean, the type of brick we have chosen, a photo of our house (currently without anything in front), and a sketch of our rough plan.
Looking forward to helpful comments
aytex schrieb:
No one has to share our taste on the matter Actually, to some extent they do—at least to be able to envision what might fit. "Can be Basalo," yes, at least colorwise for the windows—but that’s not a facing brick, and the texture (which, in my opinion, looks forced and irregular) doesn’t match the paving, the house, or the carport. A facing brick modeled visually after the light-colored example house picture wouldn’t stand out on a relatively small wall area, doesn’t work well in dark tones in my opinion, matches the carport facade in the shown color only so-so, and the texture there doesn’t fit either. It’s hard to find anything here that wouldn’t spoil the overall look. Are the formwork stones available now, or are they just an example image?
I can’t fully reconcile the drawing with the picture, can’t assign the dimensions indicated, and I have no idea what "Ziarbern" means. All of this makes providing useful answers difficult.
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aytex schrieb:
It’s been a few years, but I’m curious to know what happened to your wall in the front yard? A few pictures would be great 🙂
aytex schrieb:
Hello everyone,
......................Hello aytex,
could you show which bricks you eventually chose and how it looks overall?
I’m really interested because I’ve also been puzzling over this for a while 🙂
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