How To Build a Double car Garage In Brick: Support Wall Being Built

From my last post, the support wall foundation has been dug out and concrete with rebar poured into place. I left the foundaton concrete to set/harden for over a week, It is now ready for the support wall to be built.

Building anything out of brick is not that difficult, but be patient, there is a knack to it, after all its a skilled trade and very labour intensive. This support wall is going to give me plenty of practice before I start building my garage. The concrete mix is so important for your wall to function properly. I will put my tips and guides on bricklaying, rebar, concrete/cement mix's etc on later post's.

For the support wall, I'm using standard concrete blocks, these can be bought at most builder's merchant's. They are very strong, easy to lay and are not expensive (about 40p a block).

Here are the photo's of the support wall being built. You can see from the pictures that I am building "brick lights" in to the driveway wall for a nice effect when you use the driveway at night.