About Green Bay Retaining Walls

Green Bay Retaining Walls is a locally owned wall contractor serving sloped property in and around Green Bay, Wisconsin. We fix walls that have moved, replace walls past fixing, build new block, timber, boulder, and stone walls, correct the drainage behind sound walls, terrace slopes into flat usable yard, and take on long runs for HOA boards and commercial property managers. Wisconsin licensing and liability coverage are in place.

The part that separates our walls is unglamorous and it is most of the job. The back of the wall gets opened. Washed angular stone fills the space behind the units from the base course up, filter fabric keeps red clay out of that stone, and a sleeved perforated pipe carries water off to an open end. Where height calls for it, geogrid reaches from between the courses back into the hill, with the reach set by the wall rather than by habit. Leave those out and you have block resting on soil, holding a wet hillside.

Brown County hands a wall two loads at once. Red lacustrine clay covers this county, and it holds water for days after rain or a thaw. Then frost drives about four feet into the ground, freezing whatever that clay is holding, and the ice pushes. The wall gives a fraction of an inch and never takes it back. Homeowners expect the rain. Frost is the one that walks a wall out of line over five or six winters.

We turn work away too. A run that has rotated hard cannot be pushed upright, so we price the rebuild instead of a fix that will not hold. Tall walls need a permit and an engineer's design, and every municipality in this county sets its own height number, so we check yours before you fall in love with a price. A cracked or bowing basement wall goes to a foundation contractor. Saying that loses us a job occasionally. It beats billing you for work that fails twice.

Call (920) 555-0187 with a question about your wall, job or no job.