Retaining walls in Kenosha, WI
We build poured concrete and block retaining walls on a proper footing, with drainage stone and a drain pipe behind them, so the water in the slope has a way out instead of pushing on the wall.
Free, no-obligation estimates. We answer the phone or call back the same working day.
The short answer
We build poured concrete and concrete block retaining walls for homes and businesses in Kenosha, each one set on a proper footing with drainage built in behind it.
A retaining wall holds back a slope so the ground on the low side stays usable. Walls get built from natural stone, concrete block, timber and other materials; ours are poured concrete or block, because those are the walls a concrete crew builds best, from the footing up.
What we build
We build poured and block walls, and every one gets the footing, drainage stone and drain pipe it needs, quoted as one job.
Formed on site, reinforced with steel and poured in place, for a smooth, solid face in one piece.
Concrete block laid course by course on a level footing, for a wall with a built, coursed look.
The base the wall stands on, set at the level the site inspection calls for.
Clean stone behind the wall, so water drops through it instead of soaking against the back.
A pipe along the base that carries that water away from the wall.
Why we build the drainage in
Water trapped behind a retaining wall pushes on it and weakens it until it fails, so the drainage goes in with the wall, not after it.
Rain and snowmelt soak into the slope and run downhill to the back of the wall. With nowhere to go, that water adds its weight to the soil the wall is already holding. Drainage stone gives it a path down, and the drain pipe at the base carries it out.
That is why we never price a wall without its drainage. A wall that looks fine the day it is finished but has no way to shed water is the one that leans later.
What sits behind and under every wall we build:
How the job runs
Here is how a wall goes from the site inspection to the finished pour:
We look at the slope, the soil and where the water runs before anything else is decided.
The inspection sets the wall type, the drainage system and the level the footing sits at.
We dig out for the footing and the drainage stone, down to the level the wall needs.
On a poured wall the forms go up and the reinforcement is placed inside them.
The concrete is poured, or the block is laid, with the drainage built in behind it.
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What it costs
A retaining wall is priced by its length, its height and what it is built from, and a wall over four feet tall often needs a permit and sometimes an engineer's design.
Retaining walls in Kenosha typically run these ranges per square foot of wall face:
Those are typical figures for the area, not our quote. Your price comes from measuring your wall's length and height on the site visit.
What every estimate comes with
Call us about a wall and you can hold us to these:
We answer the phone or call back the same working day.
Where we work
We build retaining walls across Kenosha and the nearby towns in our service area, on the same terms wherever the truck stops.
A job past that footprint is a question for the call, and we will tell you straight whether we can take it.
Towns inside that footprint include:
We also build in Bristol, Elmwood Park, Mount Pleasant, Union Grove, Yorkville and Paddock Lake.
Related questions
These sit right next to a wall job, so here are the short answers, with the full one a page away.
A wall over four feet may need a permit, since many towns require one at that height, and some may also require an engineer's design. We check what applies to your wall before we price it, so the paperwork is in the quote and not a surprise later.
Wall and footing size follow the wall's height and the load of the soil behind it, and we set them before the pour. Flat slabs follow simpler rules: walks run four inches thick and slabs that carry vehicles five to six inches.
How Thick Concrete Should BeFAQ
In Kenosha a retaining wall typically runs $17 to $53 per square foot of wall face. We measure your wall on the site visit and quote the whole job, drainage included, before we start.
The wall type is the first lever on price, because the material sets the rate more than anything else does. Skipping the drainage is never the saving it looks like, because trapped water is what brings walls down.
Concrete contractors build poured concrete and block retaining walls, and that is the work we do in Kenosha. Some towns require an engineer's design for walls over four feet, and when yours needs one, we build to it.
With the height set at four feet, the wall's length is what moves the price, since every foot of length adds four square feet of face. That height sits right at the line where many towns start asking for a permit, and some for an engineer's design, so we check it before we quote. Call and we will measure yours.
Call and tell us about the slope and where the water goes. We come out, look at the site and quote the whole wall, drainage included, before anything is dug.
We quote the whole job before we start, with no surprise charges after.
