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Replacing concrete blocks

Posted by Toby Brown, on
Hello, We’ve recently moved into a terrace house where the neighbour had recently ‘completed’ a rear ground floor extension that comes up about an inch from our fence. Turns out that their builder decided he could get away with using concrete blocks for the bits of this wall hidden by my fence (despite the plans calling for a brick faced wall). As the result my neighbour has a few courses of bricks, followed by about 1.5m of concrete blocks topped off with about 5 courses of bricks again. The neighbour now wants to take down our fence (and almost inevitably trash our garden) to render this wall. Naturally we feel for our neighbour, and want to help, but we’d prefer not to trash our new garden so we’re wondering if there are any alternatives - for example, is it possible (even if more expensive) to replace the concrete blocks from the inside of his new extension? Any help would be really appreciated!

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