Retaining Wall Repair in Allouez, WI
Green Bay Retaining Walls serves Allouez, Wisconsin. Wall repair, full rebuilds, timber wall replacement, boulder and stone walls, drainage correction, terracing, and new wall construction. We carry Wisconsin licensing and liability insurance.
Allouez sits in a narrow strip between Green Bay and De Pere. The Fox River forms the west edge and the East River forms the east edge. Two rivers make two directions for the ground to fall. Lots here are close together and the housing is older than the newer ring towns, so the walls we see are short, long, and tired. Side yards leave little room for a machine, which shapes how a rebuild gets staged.
Water is what puts these walls down, not soil weight. Dry ground pushes, and a wall is built for that push. Saturated ground pushes far harder, because the water adds its own pressure on top of the earth pressure. Red lacustrine clay is slow to release what it takes on. It stays loaded through a wet spring, and it freezes solid every winter behind any wall backfilled with it.
A rebuild here starts below grade. We trench, compact the subgrade, then lay and compact angular gravel about six inches deep and wider than the block. The first course goes below finished grade so the toe of the wall cannot kick out. Each course above steps back a little, which leans the wall's weight into the hill it holds. We use Versa-Lok units cut on site for the curves, with Tensar UX geogrid on anything tall enough to need it.
Sound block from your old wall goes back in. Concrete units do not wear out, so a rebuild buys excavation, base, stone, pipe, grid, and labor.
Call (920) 555-0187 for a free estimate on retaining wall work in Allouez.