Retaining in Byron Bay & the Northern Rivers
Corten steel, sandstone boulders and reclaimed railway sleepers holding banks where they belong, and irrigation feeding the beds so you are not standing there with a hose.
A wall you cannot paint
The escarpment block at Suffolk Park is held by curved corten steel, cut into a slope you could not walk before we started. Corten rusts to its own finish and never needs painting, which matters on a wall that no one could get a ladder to anyway. The levels above and below it are the usable garden.
How we work
Half the blocks in this region are on a slope. A retaining wall turns ground you cannot use into a level you can, and it decides where the water goes for the next twenty years. Both matter more than what the wall is made of.
Drainage behind the wall is the part nobody sees and the part that fails. Aggregate, an ag line and somewhere for it to go. We build to that standard on a garden wall the same as a structural one, and we bring in an engineer where the height or the surcharge calls for it.
