Bricklaying in Boldon Colliery

Often yes. If the brickwork below the roofline is sound, a rebuild above the roofline plus new flaunching and flashings is the usual and much less disruptive option.

It depends on the address. South Tyneside Council is the authority for planning and building control, not Sunderland, which surprises people who think of the area as part of Sunderland. We check the designation before any design work goes far enough to be expensive to change.

Yes. A wall without an adequate foundation will move, and on clay ground it will move noticeably within a couple of winters. The foundation depth depends on the wall height and the ground it is sitting on.

Yes. A short garden wall, a set of steps or a single pier is perfectly normal work for us and gets the same standard as a larger contract.

Yes. Faces are cleaned as the work goes up rather than left to set, which produces a far better result than trying to remove hardened mortar at the end.

It is South Tyneside Council. People sometimes send paperwork to a neighbouring authority because of the postal address or the historic county, and that costs time rather than money. For bricklaying you will need boundary wall height rules and, in conservation areas, mortar and joint specification.

Everything from colliery terraces and inter war housing around the old village through to later estates spreading toward East Boldon and West Boldon. Which of those you have changes the method more than the postcode does, which is why we look before we quote.

We do. Jarrow, Hebburn, Sunderland are all within our normal working area for bricklaying, as is most of Tyne and Wear, County Durham and south east Northumberland.

As a general rule a wall up to two metres is permitted, dropping to one metre where it adjoins a highway used by vehicles or a footpath beside one. Different limits apply to listed buildings and some conservation areas, so it is worth confirming before the foundation goes in.

Yes, and it is worth knowing early. The clue is in the name, and the ground here carries a direct colliery legacy which puts much of the village inside the Coal Authority high risk mapping. Where that applies we say so before you commit, not once the trench is open.