Retaining Wall Repair in Palo, IA
Cedar Rapids Retaining Walls repairs and rebuilds retaining walls in Palo, Iowa, and corrects the drainage behind walls that are sound but wet. Block, timber, boulder, and natural stone. Iowa licensed and insured.
Palo sits on the Cedar River just west of the city. The river took the town hard in 2008, and people here already know what water does to ground. That knowledge helps, because water is the whole argument for how a wall is built.
River ground carries a high water table, and buried valleys along this stretch of the Cedar hold water-bearing alluvium. Groundwater is not a theory in Palo. It arrives from underneath as well as from the sky, and a wall backfilled with native dirt has no route for either. The soil behind that wall stays wet, wet soil weighs more and pushes harder, and in January it freezes and pushes harder still.
So the outlet decides the job. We set the perforated pipe at the bottom of the stone column, sleeve it against silt, run it on a fall, and daylight it somewhere the water actually leaves. If the grade will not give us daylight, we say so up front and design the outlet before we quote the wall. Weep holes through a solid face are not a substitute. They only relieve water that reaches them, they plug, and they do nothing for water sitting in the middle of the backfill.
We check the downspouts too. A downspout emptying behind a wall fills the backfill every time it rains, and no wall is built for that.
Call (319) 555-0129 for a free estimate on retaining wall repair in Palo.