Pitt Meadows Wood Retaining Wall Replacement
Client's goals
The homeowners were dealing with a failing concrete retaining wall that was leaning and becoming unstable. With the property already slated for future development, they did not want a long-term structural solution: the priority was a cost-efficient fix that would keep the wall safe and standing for a few more years, until redevelopment replaced it anyway.
Dealing with a failing, leaning concrete retaining wall
Prioritizing cost efficiency over long-term durability
A safe, practical solution good for a few more years
Keeping investment minimal ahead of planned redevelopment
Overview
Roka Projects replaced a failing, leaning concrete retaining wall in Pitt Meadows with a simple, cost-efficient wood retaining wall in a single week, for $10,000. The old wall was demolished, the site excavated as required, the new walls built and anchored with dead-heads, and everything put back together. Quick and easy by design: with redevelopment already planned for the property, the owners needed a safe wall for a few more years, not an engineered rebuild for the next forty.
Scope of work
Existing failing concrete retaining wall demolished
Excavation as required for the new walls
New wood retaining walls built, anchored with dead-heads
Site backfilled and put back together
Result
The leaning wall is gone and a straight, solid one stands in its place, sized to the property's actual future. The owners spent a fraction of an engineered rebuild's cost on a problem the redevelopment will erase anyway. Knowing when not to over-build is part of the job: the right fix here was the simplest one that worked.
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