Retaining Wall Repair and Replacement in Suamico, WI
Green Bay Retaining Walls repairs, rebuilds, and builds walls in Suamico, Wisconsin. Segmental block, timber replacement, boulder and stone, wall drainage correction, and terracing. Wisconsin licensed and insured.
Water defines Suamico. A large share of the town's area is water. The Suamico River runs east through the town into the bay. Lots near the river and near the shoreline carry a high water table, and a high water table changes how backfill behaves. Ground that is already wet has nowhere to put the next rain, so it stays loaded and it stays heavy against the back of your wall.
Timber walls are common on this ground and they are usually the ones that call us. A timber wall does not stand on its own weight. Deadmen, timbers running back into the hill and fastened to the face, hold it. Face timbers rot at the ground line where soil, air, and water meet. Deadmen rot buried, where nobody sees it. A wall whose deadmen are gone is standing on borrowed time until the soil behind it gets wet enough. Ground contact pressure treated timber gives you fifteen to twenty years here, give or take.
Replacing the face timbers on rotted deadmen buys the same failure a second time. We either rebuild the timber wall properly or put the wall back on the same line in block. A block rebuild takes the grade and the plantings you already have, adds a compacted base, a stone column, and a drain, and stops the rot question for good. On the heavy runs we set County Materials Rib Rock, an oversize unit that holds by mass.
Call (920) 555-0187 for a free estimate on retaining wall work in Suamico.