- Location
- Holderness
How practical is it to build a curved wall out of hollow blocks? I need to take a Pig race around 90 degrees. It will have a 2metre radius.
It’s for a Pig race. I want to hinge a gate from the internal corner, so that it can swing both ways depending if Pigs are coming in or going out?if the gate is 2m then I need the internal radius to be the same I think.
Cheers for that. I hadn’t thought of going end on, but I’d worry about getting the wall strong enough with out rodding and filling it. I’ll lay it out on the floor in the morning and see if it looks right.Thats a tighter radius than we've done in the past but both our parlours have curved walls done with 9" blocks, first one was build the normal way and the second with the blocks end on, I think you'd need to go that way for a radius that size.
Cheers for that. I hadn’t thought of going end on, but I’d worry about getting the wall strong enough with out rodding and filling it. I’ll lay it out on the floor in the morning and see if it looks right.
Use some radius kerbs and lay them,Mind you fingers though, you could get some 8mm bar and bend that and lay it in the mortar bed for reinforcingHow practical is it to build a curved wall out of hollow blocks? I need to take a Pig race around 90 degrees. It will have a 2metre radius.
That makes a lot more sense. Sorry brain is on a go slow after too much to drink last night.Ours are still filled and rodded, they're built so youre looking at the end of them and end up with a double thickness wall, we needed this anyway but might not be appropriate for you layout.
Tidy job. Doesn’t look as tight as I thought it would actually.We managed to get them laid longways. Worked better than I expected. Sorry for the poor photo but its all I managed to get somehow.