Overview
Retaining Walls built for Hillsborough conditions
A search for retaining wall contractors near Hillsborough pulls crews from Somerville, Bridgewater, and beyond. Hillsborough, NJ retaining wall work has a pattern, because most of the township was built in the same era with the same timber detail.
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Retaining Wall Installation in Hillsborough, NJ
Timber tie walls were standard in Hillsborough developments through the 1990s. Thirty years later the wood is soft, the spikes have loosened, and the wall is holding by habit rather than by design.
Replacement with segmental block is the most common Hillsborough retaining wall job. The old ties come out, the base gets rebuilt, and the new wall gets the drainage the original never had.
Subdivision lots were graded during construction, which means the fill behind a Hillsborough wall is often exactly that, fill. It compacts unevenly, and the wall shows it before anything else does.
Ground toward the western side of the township runs rockier as it rises. Excavation for a Hillsborough wall base takes longer there, and that gets priced before the machine shows up.
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Retaining Wall Construction and Repair in Hillsborough, NJ
Most Hillsborough walls are modest in height, holding a grade change between a lawn and a patio or a driveway edge. That keeps the engineering simple, provided the drainage is right.
Landscape retaining walls do double duty here. A low block wall in a Hillsborough front yard creates a raised bed and solves a grade change that the builder handled with a slope nobody could mow.
Repair calls are usually timber walls at the end of their life. There is no repairing rotten wood, and we say so rather than selling a patch that fails again by the next Hillsborough spring.
Block walls that lean on a Hillsborough property almost always lack drainage stone behind the face. That is a rebuild of the backfill, not a cosmetic fix on the front.
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Why Hillsborough Homeowners Call Us
Demolition and disposal are included. The old timber wall leaves the Hillsborough property with us instead of sitting in a pile behind the shed all summer.
Registered, licensed, and insured in New Jersey, with a one-year warranty on materials and labor written into every Hillsborough retaining wall estimate before work starts.
Landscaping and hardscaping run from the same company. On a Hillsborough lot that means the wall, the bed above it, and the patio below it get designed as one thing.
Estimates are free with no obligation. We look at the existing wall, the grade, and the drainage, then price it in writing, Monday through Saturday, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM.
As a licensed retaining wall contractor in Hillsborough, NJ, the services cover retaining wall installation, retaining wall construction, landscape retaining walls, decorative retaining walls, and retaining wall repair for homes and commercial sites.
