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Hi Jane,
Blocks at the moment work out more than bricks for a m2 of wall.
I am assuming you are building double skin so that the moisture in the beds does not blow you render on the front wall when it pulls the moist through.
I cannot see a rendered block wall being cheaper than a brickwall if it is built well as there is more materials and time involved.
Make sure you use external quality beading and that whatever you use for the coping has sufficent over hang so that the drip edge doesn't bleed down the wall.
I would avoid using timber as a coping as it will want to move with the seasons and never really settle down.
Hopefully some food for thought.
As above with copings. You could consider buff coloured blocks which would save you the cost of rendering or fair face/paint grade concrete blocks which could be painted...
Thanks both of you - that's really useful. NB: I am a bit late replying as I didn't realise I wasn't getting alerts when you posted something.
I think brick would look good as the external wall to the street is brick and so is the bottom of the house. The top of the house is rendered in cream. This is one of the options I have done. The garden's north facing so I have even more doubts about rendering..algae etc. Now to consider another material for coping - of course stone would be ideal but I think too costly for the budget. I shall look at Brett's etc.
Thanks again - Jane
Thanks Ray. I'd quite like a contrasting coping but will explore what it looks like with just brick. Or I could use brick as the coping on a rendered wall.
Jane