Owners should ensure that garden and boundary walls are inspected from time to time to see if any repairs are necessary, or whether a wall needs rebuilding. Such walls are amongst the most common forms of masonry to suffer collapse, and they are unfortunately one of the commonest causes of deaths by falling masonry. Insurance policies may not provide cover if the wall has been neglected.
Besides the general deterioration and aging of a masonry wall over the years, walls may be affected by:
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