Scenic Rim Retaining Wall Builders000
A finished frontage wall stepping across a slope

Company

4.5 Excellent
Based on 16 Google reviews
Two people, one job at a time
Company

Scenic Rim Retaining Wall Builders is Jake and Brittany Spriggs, based at Gleneagle, Queensland, working the same hills and the same clay as the people we build for. Jake has over 12 years in the industry. The business has been Scenic Rim Retaining Wall Builders since 2023. It’s just the two of us. Brittany takes your call and runs the office, and Jake quotes your wall and builds it.

Posts set and concreted, mid build
A wall turning a corner on a cut block
How we got here

We met when we were both 17. Jake had just started his landscaping apprenticeship, and even back then he'd tell me he was going to run his own business one day with me working in it alongside him. He finished the apprenticeship, went on and got his structural landscaping certificate, and eventually went out on his own with a fencing and landscaping business.

For years after that he worked as a subcontractor for builders. He'd do the work, invoice it, and then wait. Some of them never paid. In 2018 it caught up with us and we lost our home and our assets, and we started again from scratch.

Jake took a wages job as a retaining wall builder with another company while we got back on our feet. In 2023 we started Scenic Rim Retaining Wall Builders, and this time we only take private residential work. He hasn't worked for a builder since.

That's the reason we're careful about what we promise you. We know exactly what it feels like to be on the wrong end of someone else's paperwork, so we'd rather give you the honest answer about your wall than win the job on a number that moves later.

The one we are proudest of

Ask us which job we're proudest of and it's the Woodhill wall. Two tiers, and Jake and I built it in a week, in the middle of a January heatwave, with our nine year old son on site learning how a retaining wall goes together.

What we are known for

Knock down and rebuilds. Taking out a wall that’s failed and building one that won’t.

We get a fair few jobs where a wall was built badly and failed a year later: no drainage, hand mixed concrete and small footings. We knock it down, take it away, and build it again with 450 mm pier holes, 32 MPa concrete from the plant, and drainage gravel behind the wall.

What we will always do
Give you a straight estimate

If you know roughly how long and how high the wall is, Brittany gives you an estimated price on the phone, including GST. She’ll tell you it’s an estimate and not a locked quote, and what could change it, like rock breaking or tight access.

Lock the price

The price you accept is the price you pay, locked for 30 days. We don’t do builder variations. It only changes if you ask for extra work during the build, and then Jake agrees it with you on site and you approve a new quote first.

Send you to someone else when we should

We don’t build fences, but we work closely with a fencing contractor we trust who can quote yours. One of our reviews is from a customer thanking us for splitting the job between experts.

What we do not do

We’ve narrowed deliberately. Every one of these has a reason.

Walls over 1 metre retained

It takes a higher licence class, twenty tonne machines and a crew on site. That’s a different business to the one we’ve chosen to be, and we’d rather be very good at the walls we do build.

Timber, rock and sandstone

We build steel reinforced concrete sleeper walls and nothing else.

Fencing

We used to, and we stopped because of disputes with neighbours. We’ll put you onto the fencing contractor we work with.

Engineered walls, and council approvals

We don’t do engineering or build engineered walls. Council approvals and fees are the owner’s to arrange. If your wall looks like it needs either, we’ll say so at the start.

Walls in an illegal position, or unsafe sites

If a wall can’t legally go where it’s wanted, or the site isn’t safe to work on, we won’t build it.

Repairs to somebody else’s wall

The moment we touch it, the whole wall is our liability. We won’t put our licence on a wall that’s already failing.

Jobs under $8,000

We don’t take on retaining walls under $8,000. If yours is smaller, we’ll tell you on the phone.

Soft landscaping

No turf, no plants, no garden beds. We’re retaining wall builders, not landscapers.

We also need 1100 millimetres of access to get our 1.7 tonne machine in. Limited access still works, but it adds machine time, and more again if Jake has to put the sleepers in by hand. If there’s no way through for the machine, we’ll tell you on the phone rather than come out and quote a wall we can’t build.

Where we work
Augustine Heights
Beaudesert
Bellbird Park
Boonah
Bundamba
Camira
Canungra
Carindale
Chuwar
Coomera
Crestmead
Deebing Heights
Eagleby
Fernvale
Flagstone
Gleneagle
Heathwood
Helensvale
Ipswich
Jimboomba
Laidley
Logan Village
Lowood
Mudgeeraba
Mundoolun
Nerang
Oxenford
Pacific Pines
Ripley
Robina
Rosewood
South Ripley
Springfield
Springwood
Tamborine
Woodend
Woodhill

Not sure if you’re in range? Ring us and we’ll tell you straight.

QBCC licence 15049372 (Jacob Spriggs) / Licensed and insured

Reviews
4.5 Excellent
Based on 16 Google reviews

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

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

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

Next

Tell us about the block

Six short questions, about two minutes. Brittany rings you back, then Jake comes out and measures it. Quotes are locked for 30 days, with no builder variations.

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