...but I don't think we'll be able to get the Mexicans to pay for it. And I suppose we'll don't actually need to, it's just something we're considering...
Our back and side garden currently has a 2m high wooden slatted fence around it, with a large leylandii (3-4m) hedge along much of it. We rely on this for privacy, and for noise reduction from the sometimes-busyish road beside us.
The fence beside the hedge is in poor repair, but doesn't matter too much due to the hedge; the section by our back gate is better but the gatepost has now warped and cracked.
We're trying to work out whether to just repair that, or to replace the back section with a 2m high, 4ish metre long wall, but leave the hedge section alone, or replace the whole thing (25m, roughly) with a 2m wall. The hedge is annoying, but does give good privacy and traffic noise muffling, and it had a pair of birds nesting in it this spring.
We'd need someone who knew what they were doing to build a wall, we don't. How much roughly would that be likely to cost for these options? We're in Stirling, and the wall would need to be sturdy and not just made of brick (doesn't fit in with the area).
Is there anything else we should be thinking about, or checking? Planning permission?
A climbing forum is obviously the best place to ask about this, so I've done so here.
Thanks in advance!