Building a curved wall with hollow blocks

Jack Russell

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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.
 

Fraserb

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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.

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.
 

Jack Russell

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Holderness
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.
 

Fraserb

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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.

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.

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Jack Russell

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Holderness
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.
That makes a lot more sense. Sorry brain is on a go slow after too much to drink last night.
 

Jack Russell

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Holderness
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.
 

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