Retaining Walls Lane Cove

Retaining Walls in Lane Cove 2066

We work on retaining walls throughout Lane Cove 2066. The service covers timber sleeper, concrete sleeper, masonry block and sandstone walls, from garden terracing to engineered structural walls, 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.

Retaining walls fail from water, not weight. Every wall we build gets an aggregate drainage zone, a subsoil drain to a proper outlet and geofabric to stop the drain silting up — the parts nobody sees and the parts that decide whether the wall is still straight in fifteen years. Lower North Shore walls are often replacing century-old sandstone that is bulging or has lost its face, and the tricky part is supporting the garden and structures above while the old wall comes out. 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.

Lane Cove sits in Lane Cove Council's area, and the ground here is sandstone shelf under shallow soil, steepening sharply toward the river. With a mix of period cottages, apartments and larger homes on the peninsula streets, that shapes what works and what does not — which is why every Lane Cove quote follows a free on-site measure rather than a price off a screen.

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