Specifications 

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We manufacture 3 styles of walls, which are listed below.
Note: All walls are able to be adapted to accept timber, iron or various infills.

Contemporary Wall
Contemporary style walls have an overall panel thickness of 40mm and a 90mm top wall capping. Posts measure 150 x 100 mm.

It is available with or without top wall capping (Standard wall is supplied with a flush wall capping).

Each standard panel has an effective coverage of 2.5 or 2.8 meters, including one post.

The contemporary wall is the most cost effective of the 3 styles.

Traditional Wall
Traditional walls have an overall panel thickness of 75mm and a 120mm top wall capping. Posts measure 250 x 150 mm. (designed around a rendered brick width)

It is available with or without top wall capping (Standard wall is supplied with a flush wall capping).

Each standard panel has an effective coverage of 2.6, 2.9 or 3.2 meters, including one post.

The Traditional wall is most commonly used were a true rendered brick wall look is desired.

Estate Wall
Estate walls have an overall panel thickness of 75mm and a 120mm top wall capping. Posts measure 350 x 250 mm.

It is available with or without top wall capping (Standard wall is supplied with a flush wall capping).

Each standard panel has an effective coverage of 2.7, 3.0 or 3.3 meters, including one post.

The Estate wall is most commonly used were a grand rendered brick wall look is desired.

PANELS

·         Wall panels are a fibre cement/polystyrene composite sandwich panel.

·         An average panel weight is 30kg

·         The panels are easily cut with a circular saw to follow an uneven ground level or to suit an exact dimension.

-Example:

An 1800 wall consists of 2 x 900mm panels in a stack configuration and joined with internal aligning biscuits. If a render is to be applied the joint is set and rendered over.

All the above procedures can be viewed on the ‘Garden Walls’ instructional DVD

POSTS

TYPES OF POSTS

- End post.   Also suitable for supporting gates.

- Mid posts.

- 90° & 45° corner posts.

WIND REGIONS

This information is suitable for use in wind regions A, B and C of AS 1170.2-2002 SAA Loading Code. If you have any doubt about the region your wall will be in, get advice from your local building consent authority.

Determine Your Terrain Category

Select the terrain category that best describes the area in which your wall will be. If you want to build on the top of a hill, adjacent to an escarpment, on a ridge, or in terrain category 1, you will need engineering advice beyond the scope of this publication.

Category 2: Open terrain including sea coast areas, airfields, grassland with a few well-scattered obstructions such as isolated trees and uncut grass, having heights generally from 1.5m to 10m and water surfaces. Typically acreage-suburbia with less than 10 houses per hectare.

Category 2.5: Terrain with a few trees, isolated obstructions (e.g. agricultural land, canefields or long grass to 0.6 m). This category is typical of developing outer urban areas. Less than 10 houses per hectare; or more than 10 houses per hectare, 500m apart and in 2 rows.

Category 3: Terrain with numerous closely spaced obstructions the size of domestic houses 3 to 5m high. Typically residential-suburbia with 10 or more houses per hectare.

Wall heights for specific wind regions

- Contemporary
900mm - 2100mm max (wind regions A & B)
900mm - 1800mm max (wind region C – Internal 30x30x1.6mm gal strengthening box section will be supplied to strengthen wall panels and Posts require partially core filling 600mm above finished ground level on a 1500mm high wall and 1200mm above finished ground level on an 1800mm wall.

- Traditional
900mm - 2700mm max (wind region A & B)
900mm - 1800mm max (wind region C – Posts require partially core filling 250mm above finished ground level on an 1800mm wall and 600mm above finished ground level on a 2100mm high wall).

- Estate
900mm - 2700mm max (wind region A & B)
900mm - 1800mm max (wind region C – Posts require partially core filling 250mm above finished ground level on an 1800mm wall and 600mm above finished ground level on a 2100mm high wall

- Commercial
1800mm - 3600mm max (wind region A & B)

PRODUCT LIMITATIONS

The ‘Garden wall’ is not recommended for use as a retaining wall or anything that will cause the wall to permeantly retain moisture. Where a panel is in contact with the ground, provide a waterproof membrane to this section plus 100mm above the finished ground level.