The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 4:03 pm**

Hi all.

Have a job to price for a long-standing client. Re-top existing garden walls with red engineers as existing have spalled badly (in 7 years).
Bearing in mind the huge price difference between solids and perforateds, has anyone had success matching solids and perfs? We probably need 30-40 "ends" so perfs not an option there, and there's not much money in the job to start with...

Cheers

John

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 5:02 pm**

unless otherwise specified we normally use class A s on the visible ends and class Bs inbetween
however the quality of the class Bs has dropped in the last few years and if it is a nice area I would use all class A

have you considered coping stones?
at least the water gets discharged away from the wall
a brick on edge without a tile creasing only leads to water running down the wall
another alternative is to lay class As flat
cheers LLL

Posted: **Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:57 pm**

Tony, yes, agree with your ideas. Hit a brick wall :rock: withthe managing agents though - must be as existing......crap then....

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