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Tell us what the site is doing. The fall, the access, and whatever engineering exists.
Send the fall, the access and any engineering you have. If there are no drawings, say so and we organise them. Every enquiry gets a call back the same day, and we will tell you if it is not a job for us.
A wall gets priced properly off four things. If you have all four the number comes back quickly. If you have none of them that is fine, it just means a site visit first.
- The height and the lengthRoughly is enough. A rough height changes the answer more than anything else on this list, because past about a metre the wall stops being landscaping and starts being a structure.
- What is above and below itA driveway, a pool, a shed, a boundary or a neighbour's wall. Anything carrying load onto the wall changes the design and usually the permit.
- Machine accessThe narrowest point between the street and the work, and whether a truck can get near it. Access decides the plant, and the plant decides the program.
- Any engineering or plans you already haveA stamped design set, a geotech report, a surveyor's plan, or an architect's drawings. If a design already exists we price the documented works rather than guessing at them.
What happens next
Four steps, and you are told where you are at each one
- A call back the same dayUsually to ask two or three questions the form could not. If it is not a job for us you are told on that call, not a fortnight later.
- A site visit, if the job needs oneWalls under a metre with good access can often be priced off photographs. Anything structural gets looked at properly before a number is put on it.
- An itemised quoteDrainage and certification are listed as their own lines rather than buried in a rate. They are the two items a cheaper quote leaves out, and the two worth comparing between quotes.
- Permits and engineering, if they are neededWalls over a metre, or carrying a driveway or a structure, generally need a building permit. As a registered builder that sits with us rather than with you.
Or just call
If it is easier to talk it through, or the job is urgent, ring rather than fill in the form.
Shane Van Florestein
0478 668 761
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Where we work
Based at 259a Swansea Road, Lilydale VIC 3140, working across Melbourne. The Dandenong Ranges and the eastern suburbs are the home ground, and structural work is taken Melbourne wide.
Working with builders and project managers
If you are engaging us as a subcontractor, send the drawings, the program and the site requirements and we will come back on scope and rates rather than a lump sum. Excavation, drilling, footings, drainage and wall construction sit under one contract with one crew, so there is no gap between trades for a problem to live in.
Registered Builder CDB U 58737, registered with the Victorian Building Authority, so the permit pathway is handled in house. Walls are designed and built to AS 4678, the Australian standard for earth retaining structures, which means an engineer puts their name on the design and the wall is built to hold what it was designed to hold.
Not sure whether your wall needs engineering?
The common questions, answered plainly. Permits, heights, footings, boundaries, and what makes a wall structural rather than decorative.