Top of garden wall coping, engineered bricks others options

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Hi,

I have a wall about a meter high that runs around my front drive around 17 meter in length total it’s a double brick thick wall about 22cm in width, over time the top course of soldier bricks have started in to crumble in places and it now looks a mess and needs to be sorted.

I spoke to a brickie and he suggested just replacing the damaged bricks and then putting coping on top, I've had a look at some of my neighbours coping which is the standard grey and looks like paving and I'm not too keen on it is it possible to get coping in a different colours (anywhere that can be recommended), I can see from googling you can get slate but I don’t want to spend that much. The other option is just to put stronger engineered bricks at the top course, do they do different trim design for these type of bricks I noticed in B &Q yesterday they had a blue engineered type which were curved, I've tried to find these online but can't are they called something specific ?

thanks

 

[mikric]

Blue engineer bricks look good on a tile creasing and in my opinion are one of the best looking and functional ways to finish a wall top.
http://www.buildersinstevenage.co.u...e-engineering-bricks-shingle-effect-driveway/
The curved bricks you have seen are called "bullnose" bricks but they are expensive

 

[noseall]

Clay tile crease with blue brick soldier header or solids laid flat with a strong concrete sand fillet is both practical and aesthetically sound, without being too showy.

There are more elaborate ways i.e. corbelling out complete with dog-toothing or angled toothing, but i think it looks a bit 'wedding cake' personally and should be left for chimneys.

 

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Thanks for the advice, generally what would you expect to pay to have around 22m length of top course bricks removed and replaced with engineering bricks, London prices ?

 

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Thanks for the advice, generally what would you expect to pay to have around 22m length of top course bricks removed and replaced with engineering bricks, London prices ?