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Hi all,

I hope you can help a little bit, I've got a 9 inch boundary wall about 3 metres high, which I want to make about 2 metres high. It returns around the back garden and is on 3 sides, enclosing the garden. The rear wall is hanging outwards quite a bit, so I thought about metal strapping it at the corners (on the inner face). I just wondered where I can get the straps from - I've looked at wickes, screwfix and jewsons and all I can see are straps with long bits and then a short return. I thought that straps should probably be about 450 or 600mm in one direction and the same again in the other?

Look forward to any comments.

Cheers,
Chris

You can either buy some flat iron & bend it yourself or see if you have a local metal fabricator or blacksmith to make you some up.

thank you for that, I've bought some L shape brackets, which are around 3 foot by 4-6 inches. They have plenty of holes in so I'm hoping that some raw plugs / long screws will do the job.

collectors wrote:You can either buy some flat iron & bend it yourself or see if you have a local metal fabricator or blacksmith to make you some up.

Just so you all know, here's one of them installed. I used 2 inch bolts / rawplugs located as near to the centre of each brick as possible.

Sorry, meant to add that I'm doing another 2 of these, 1 a few feet from the ground level and another one at roughly head height.