Licensed and insured, building retaining walls across the Adelaide Hills since 2009
A straightforward garden wall under a metre is often a two to four day job once we start: excavate and set the footings, lay the ag-line and aggregate, build the wall, then backfill and finish. A taller engineered wall, a long boundary, or a tight sloping block takes longer, and the engineer design and council approval add lead time before we dig.
The honest answer to "how long" is short, but it has parts. The build is quick. The steps before it, the engineering, the approval and the footings, are what set your start date and your finish date. Here is how the timeline really works on a retaining wall.
A straightforward garden wall under a metre is often built in two to four days once we are on site. The clock that matters is not the build, it is the lead time to your start date. That moves with the material, the season, and whether the height needs an engineer and council approval first.
A two-day wall can still take a few weeks to start, because of materials, the season, and the council approval on a tall wall. We tell you the real start window up front, so you can plan around it.
A few things add time. A long boundary. A steep or tight block. Heavy clay. A wall over a metre. Wet weather. None of it is a surprise if it is on the quote. The over-a-metre sign-off is the biggest one, because it has to happen before we can dig. We flag it all before we start, not after.
Ask this, exactly
“Can you put a start window and a build time on the quote, including the engineering and council approval if my wall is over a metre, so I know when it begins and how long it takes?”
A day count and a start window on the quote let you plan. A vague start date is how a wall job drifts for weeks with no warning.
Tell us if there is a deadline, a settlement, or work above the wall waiting on it. We can often plan around it. We would rather give you a real date than a hopeful one, especially when an approval sits in the middle of it.
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