Concrete

Featured Project: Do you remember Feature Project #2 in the paver/hardscape page?   Well approximately 7 months after that project was completed Flagler Beach was hit hard by Hurricane Nicole.  In the process their sand dune and approximately 10 feet of their backyard was swept out into the ocean. A portion of the paver deck and the entire paver path down to the beach walkdown was lost at sea.  The homeowner wanted to add a sea wall to help prevent this from happening again.  We designed a curved wall concrete sea wall with large built in French drains that sits on a 2' Deep X3' Wide Footer that sits on 6 Pilings that are 18" Diameter and run 8-10 below the bottom of the footer.  Rebar cages utilizing fiberglass pink bar were in each piling tying into the rebar reinforcement in the concrete footer/seawall that was formed and poured monolithically.  Furthermore, there were large Deadman placed behind the seawall for added strength (one under the deck on the south side and another in the yard toward the north side).  These were placed around 15 feet back into the yard from the seawall and attached by rebar directionally bored from the Deadman into the seawall footer and tied to footer rebar reinforcement.  The total seawall weight was around 45000-50000 pounds.  Once completed the sand dunes were restored around the seawall so that the seawall is buried and non-visible and the fence was run with the posts now sitting on top of the seawall.  This was all coordinated to be end up being the same elevations as prior elevations of sand dunes and the top of fence.