Anybody any experience of this?

[lotus eater]

Hello everyone, I'm hoping somebody can give me some advice.

Last December I had barbed wire fitted to the top of my garden wall. The wall is old - I don't know how old though. At the time the men fitting it told me they were having a problem at the corner of the wall as the bracket was not holding. They continued with the work and managed to put the bracket up which holds the tension wire. The tension wire has now pulled bricks away from the corner and is bowing the wall for around 5 feet in length.

My questions are:
should I have got the wall repaired before I had the barbed wire fixed? I did not know the wall was a problem - even though it is old - until the workmen came and said they were having trouble with the bracket;
or
as the company came and gave me an estimate should they have checked then that the wall was fit to take the tension wire?;
or
when the workmen discovered there was a problem should they have stopped the work, as putting the tension wire has now made the top of the wall dangerous and the wall is bowing along the length?

The men came back last night to look at the damage, and when I asked them if they knew a bricklayer who could repair the wall they said no.

I just wondered whose responsibility it is to put it right and if I have any rights in this situation.

Thanks for reading.
LE

[fredblog]

I think the citizen advice bureau would be able to answer and it will also depend on what instructions the workmen were given, i.e. did you insist they put the wire up when they said they were have problems fixing etc