Most blokes skip the drainage, skimp on the posts and backfill with whatever's lying around. Looks fine for a year, then it tilts. Ours holds, because we build it right under the ground where it counts.
Fill this out and Mitch gives you a call back, not a call centre.
A retaining wall lives most of its life out of sight. The part that decides whether it stands or sags is buried in the ground: the depth of the posts, the concrete around them, the gravel and the drainage behind the timber. We treat that hidden work like it's the whole job, because it is. Get it right down there and the wall above never moves.
Every block holds back its own weight of soil and water. A wall that leans is a wall that was rushed. We read the slope, the way the rain runs and the load it'll carry, then size the posts and the footings to match. No guesswork, no hoping. Just a straight line that stays straight, season after season.
Done right, a sleeper wall stops looking like something you added and starts looking like it grew with the yard. Clean timber, even tops, terraces that sit level with the house and the land. The kind of wall people lean on years later without a second thought, because it never gave them one reason to worry.
Cowboys plant posts shallow, skip the drainage and backfill with clay that swells. Six wet weeks later it's bowing. We build with the ground, the water and the load in mind.
We walk the site, check where the water runs, how steep the bank is and what the wall has to hold. The plan starts with the ground, not the timber.
Posts dug deep and set in concrete, hardwood sleepers, gravel and ag-pipe drainage behind every wall. The hidden work done properly so the wall never has to fight the dirt.
Straight, level tops and clean lines that sit right with your yard and your home. A wall that looks like it was always meant to be there.
Walls lean when the posts are too shallow or the water has nowhere to go. We dig the posts deep, set them in concrete, and put proper gravel and ag-pipe drainage behind every wall. The pressure gets released instead of building up and pushing it over.
We use hardwood and treated timber rated for in-ground retaining, not the cheap stuff that splits and rots in a few years. We'll talk you through the options for your wall and what suits the look of your place and the load it's holding.
Yes, and that's the part most people skip. Behind every wall we lay gravel and ag-pipe so water drains away instead of sitting against the timber and building pressure. Drainage is what keeps a wall standing, so we never leave it out.
Mitch comes out, looks at the slope and the ground, and gives you a clear fixed price for the job. No vague quotes that blow out halfway through. You'll know exactly what you're paying and exactly what you're getting.
I run Align Excavation Group across Melbourne's Eastern, Northern and South Eastern suburbs and the Mornington Peninsula. I've seen too many walls go up fast and fall over slow, and it always comes down to the same thing: corners cut under the ground where no one can see.
When I build a retaining wall, I build it like it's holding back my own backyard. Posts deep, drainage in, sleepers that'll last. I'd rather take the extra day and do it once than come back and apologise later.
If you want a wall that holds its line for years and looks like it belongs, have a yarn and I'll come take a proper look.
Get A QuoteWe stand behind our workmanship. If a wall we build moves or fails because of how we built it, we come back and sort it. That's the deal. We don't walk away once the last sleeper's in.
Fixed price, straight answers, no pressure. You'll know exactly what it'll cost before anything starts.