Block Retaining Walls Lane Cove

Block Retaining Walls in Lane Cove 2066

We work on block retaining walls throughout Lane Cove 2066. The service means core-filled reinforced masonry — besser block laid on a reinforced footing, vertical steel through the cores and the cores filled solid, and in this suburb one thing shapes it more than anything else. Lane Cove's river-facing blocks fall away hard at the rear, so fencing there is usually a retaining and fencing job together, often with materials carried in by hand.

A block wall is a reinforced concrete structure with a masonry formwork. Starter bars are cast into the footing, vertical reinforcement runs up through the cores, and the cores are filled in lifts — skip any of that and you have a stack of blocks, not a retaining wall. Block is often the only workable answer on constrained Lower North Shore sites, since it can be built by hand in tight spaces where sleepers or stone cannot be manoeuvred in. Sandstone sits close to the surface across much of Lane Cove, so posts are often drilled into rock and chemically anchored rather than concreted into a dug hole.

The ground under Lane Cove is sandstone shelf under shallow soil, steepening sharply toward the river, and the suburb is built out with a mix of period cottages, apartments and larger homes on the peninsula streets. Those two facts decide footing depth, material choice and how long the job takes, so we measure on site before we price anything in Lane Cove Council's area.

Call 0492 879 796 for a free on-site measure and a fixed written quote.