Retaining Wall Repair in Center Point, IA
Cedar Rapids Retaining Walls serves Center Point, Iowa with retaining wall repair, full rebuilds, timber wall replacement, boulder and stone walls, and wall drainage correction. Our crew is licensed and insured in the state of Iowa.
Center Point sits out past the edge of the metro, strung along the old rail line that is now the Cedar Valley Nature Trail. It is a small town on valley ground, not a hillside suburb. Lots here are generous, and a good share of the wall work is timber that went in a generation ago when timber was the cheap way to hold a grade.
Timber walls die from the inside. Deadmen are the timbers that run back into the hill and tie to the face, and they are what actually holds the wall. They rot buried, where nobody sees them. The face timbers rot at the ground line, where soil, air, and water all meet. Timber holds for fifteen years here, twenty at the outside. When the face boards are soft, the deadmen behind them are usually further gone, and the wall is still standing because the hill has not been wet enough yet.
That is why we will not bolt new face timbers onto rotted deadmen. It buys a few years and rebuilds the same failure. Most of these walls come out and go back in as pinned segmental block on the same line, with clean angular stone and a drain pipe run to daylight behind it. The block is concrete, so it does not rot at all.
Machine access matters this far out, and it usually helps. Room for a mini excavator cuts the hand digging and cuts the price.
Call (319) 555-0129 for a free estimate on retaining wall repair in Center Point.