Scenic Rim Retaining Wall Builders000

Where we work

These are some of the suburbs we build in. The ground changes from reactive clay at Boonah to cut sandstone on the Gold Coast side.

Suburbs
SuburbCouncil
Augustine HeightsIpswich City
BeaudesertScenic Rim Regional
Bellbird ParkIpswich City
BoonahScenic Rim Regional
BundambaIpswich City
CamiraIpswich City
CanungraScenic Rim Regional
CarindaleBrisbane City
ChuwarBrisbane City and Ipswich City
CoomeraCity of Gold Coast
CrestmeadCity of Logan
Deebing HeightsIpswich City
EaglebyCity of Logan
FernvaleSomerset Regional
FlagstoneCity of Logan
GleneagleScenic Rim Regional
HeathwoodBrisbane City
HelensvaleCity of Gold Coast
IpswichIpswich City
JimboombaCity of Logan
LaidleyLockyer Valley Regional
Logan VillageCity of Logan
LowoodSomerset Regional
MudgeerabaCity of Gold Coast
MundoolunCity of Logan
NerangCity of Gold Coast
OxenfordCity of Gold Coast
Pacific PinesCity of Gold Coast
RipleyIpswich City
RobinaCity of Gold Coast
RosewoodIpswich City
South RipleyIpswich City
SpringfieldIpswich City
SpringwoodCity of Logan
TamborineScenic Rim Regional and Logan City
WoodendIpswich City
WoodhillCity of Logan

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Questions

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The questions we get asked most

Check with your local council about approvals before you build. It depends on the block, so they're the ones to ask.

Most quotes aren't for a different wall. They're for a different amount of the work you can't see once it's finished: the footings, the concrete and the drainage behind it.

Walls are priced by the square metre of face, so size moves the number most. After that it's access. Our 1.7-tonne machine needs about 1100 mm of clear access, and tight access adds machine time, and hand labour if Jake has to put the sleepers in by hand. Rock that needs breaking to get the holes to depth adds to it too.

What a wall costs and why

No, and it's the thing people most often assume. We're retaining wall builders, not landscapers. The quote is the wall: the materials, the machine, the labour, the drainage behind it, and taking the old wall away if there is one.

The site cut, backfilling with soil, and any landscaping or landscaping preparation aren't in it unless they're written into the quote and priced. We'd rather you read that here than find out on the day.

No. Approvals are yours to arrange, so check with your local council, and we don't do engineering or build engineered walls.

Where approval or engineering may be needed, we'll let you know up front, so you're not three quotes in before anyone mentions it. If you're not sure, ask Jake to take a look when he measures the site.

Walls are priced per square metre of wall face, not per metre of length. A 20 metre wall at half a metre high is 10 square metres. The same wall at 1 metre high is 20 square metres, and twice the job.

If you know roughly how long and how high your wall is, Brittany can give you an estimate over the phone, including GST. It's an estimate, not a quote. Things like rock breaking or tight access can change it, and the locked price comes after Jake has measured the site. Our walls start from $8,000.

Published rates by material

A normal sized wall takes two to three days on site. A big job, like a two tier wall, can take five to ten business days. Jake is on site from about 6:30 each morning.

Weather, deliveries, rock and other trades like the concrete plant can all stretch it, and they're out of our hands. So the time we give you is our honest estimate rather than a promise.

Water. Wet soil is heavier than dry soil and clay swells when it holds water, so a wall built to hold dry ground is holding something else entirely after a wet summer.

That's why our quotes list the drainage: geofabric, a 100 millimetre socked ag pipe and 20 millimetre drainage gravel behind the wall. If a quote you're holding only says "drainage", or doesn't mention it, ask what's going in.

Why walls fail

We only build concrete sleeper walls. Timber is cheaper on the day, but it rots, and in wet clay it doesn't last. If timber is what you're after, we're not the right builder for the job.

Concrete sleepers from our supplier carry a 50 year warranty on the sleeper, and the steel reinforcing inside them is the part you're really paying for.

The material

Retaining walls are not covered by Queensland's dividing fences legislation. That Act is about fences and trees, so retaining wall disputes are decided case by case on common law.

The thread through all of it is that responsibility follows the benefit. If you cut into your land, or you filled it, the wall is usually yours.

Boundary walls

No. We specialise in concrete sleeper retaining walls only.

We can put you in touch with a fencing contractor we trust, who can quote the fence for you. We leave the wall straight and the levels right, so they have a clean start. One of our reviews is from a customer thanking us for splitting the job between experts.

How we work

About 1100 millimetres. That's what our 1.7-tonne machine needs to get through, and it's worth measuring at your narrowest point before you call anyone.

Tight but workable access adds machine time, and hand labour if Jake has to put the sleepers in by hand, which adds cost. If the machine can't reach the wall, we can't take the job, and we'll tell you on the phone before booking a site visit.

Yes. Our retaining walls start from $8,000.

If your wall is likely to come in under that, we'll let you know on the phone, so you're not waiting on a site visit.

We build concrete sleeper retaining walls up to 1 metre retained height, and refer anything outside that. Past a metre it stops being the same job. It takes a higher licence grade, ten metre tippers, heavier-duty machinery, a crew of three or four and a great deal more engineering paperwork. That's a different business from the one we've chosen.

We'd rather be very good at the walls we do build. If yours is over a metre, we'll tell you on the call so you can go straight to a contractor set up for larger walls.

Jake keeps working until he can't, or waits on site until he can carry on. If it's heavy enough that the machine could get bogged or deliveries can't get in, he comes back the next day once the ground has dried out.

No. We build new walls and full replacements, and we don't repair walls built by other contractors.

Once we alter an existing wall, we may become responsible for work we didn't build, and what's behind the face is the part that decides whether a wall stands. If your wall is failing, we'll quote a knock down and rebuild.

No. We build concrete sleeper retaining walls only.

That means no turf, plants, garden beds, fencing, timber, rock or sandstone walls. We're retaining wall builders, not landscapers, and the quote covers the retaining wall.

29 people have written about what it was like, and they all write about the same things.

The thing people tell us most is that they can’t believe it’s only the two of us. After that, it’s how fast Jake works, how clean he leaves the site, and the quality of the wall.

Reviews published on Google. Names as the reviewers gave them.

Why people trust us

Jake has more than 12 years in the industry, and he and Brittany started the business in 2023.

Jake builds it

The person who quotes your wall is the person who builds it, on site from about 6:30, with no crew you've never met.

Licensed and insured

QBCC licensed for structural landscaping, with $20 million public liability behind the work.

Drainage behind the wall

Geofabric behind every wall, a 100 millimetre socked ag pipe, and the space behind the sleepers backfilled with 20 millimetre recycled drainage gravel.

We stop at a metre, and say so early

We build up to 1 metre retained and refer anything over that. You'll hear it on the phone, not three quotes later.

QBCC licence 15049372 (Jacob Spriggs)

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Tell us about the block

Six short questions, about two minutes. Brittany calls you back, then Jake comes out and measures the wall. Quotes are locked for 30 days, and the price only changes if you ask for extra work and approve it first.

A long timber look concrete sleeper wall with steps, running along a slope

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