Florida Certified General Contractor CGC1513865
FDEP Stormwater and Erosion Inspector on the team

Florida Certified General Contractor · License CGC1513865
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Gabion baskets

Wire baskets filled with rock, stacked into a wall. We do gabion work on request, job by job.

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Florida Certified General Contractor CGC1513865 · South and Central Florida, 21 counties

1Method

What a gabion is

The method as a public source describes it.

A gabion is a wire basket filled with rock. UF/IFAS Extension, the University of Florida’s extension service, describes how a wall is made of them. Wire cages are filled with rock to make large rectangular blocks, and the blocks are stacked beside and on top of one another to form a retaining wall. It notes that gabions are often seen next to bridges and on steep slopes, and that an early use was along rivers, to stabilize the shore.

By the same source, a gabion wall is not a solid barrier: water can pass through it. On or near salt water, it advises a marine-grade caging material, to avoid rust.

A gabion wall can hold even a vertical bank, and it does not depend on a water control structure.

A curved retaining wall built of rock-filled wire baskets in stepped tiers, seen from above. A concrete path with a metal fence runs along the slope above it, and a pipe outlet opens at the foot of the wall.
A curved gabion wall in stepped tiers, seen from above.
Rock-filled wire baskets stacked in three steps along a curving shore. Below them a slope of rock under wire mesh runs down to still water, and trees stand behind the wall.
A stepped gabion wall above a rock-filled slope at the water.

2On request

Ask us about your job

We do gabion work on request, job by job.

  • Tell us what you have. Where the bank is and what you see. A phone number or an email address is enough.
  • We call back within 2 hours on business days (usually sooner).
  • The site visit is free, and we come within 7 days (usually sooner).
  • An online estimate gives you a price range within 24 hours. It is a range, not a quote.
  • The method is settled on site. We do not recommend one from a photo.
  • Where we work. South and Central Florida, 21 counties.

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3Estimate

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What happens after you write

  1. We call back

    Within 2 hours on business days (usually sooner).

  2. Free site visit

    For one lake, within 7 days (usually sooner). The method is settled on site.

  3. Written proposal

    With a price range, within 2 days of the site visit.

If you ask for an online estimate instead, you get a price range within 24 hours. It is a range, not a quote, and it never names a method.

The whole process, step by step 

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