Lilydale
Retaining walls, Lilydale
The yard is on Swansea Road. Lilydale is where the machines come out of and go back to, so work in the area gets the shortest lead time and the closest supervision.
Local in the sense that matters
Eastern Melbourne Earthworks is based at 259a Swansea Road, Lilydale. Plenty of contractors list a suburb they are willing to drive to. This is the yard the plant is kept in.
On a retaining wall that is worth more than it sounds. Site visits happen without a half day of travel attached, plant moves in stages rather than in one committed hit, and if the excavation turns up something the report did not predict, somebody can be standing on the site the same day rather than the following week.
We work Melbourne wide. Lilydale is simply the end of the shortest drive.
A wall replaced on a restricted site
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The wall that failedAssessed before anything was quoted. A wall that has moved has a reason, and the reason has to be designed out rather than rebuilt over. -
Footings to depthDrilled in house. Restricted access is what usually forces this work out to a hire rig and a second program. -
Rebuilt to the designSet out to the drawing, with the drainage detailed and photographed before backfill. -
FinishedHanded over with the record of what went in underneath it.
Around Lilydale
- The blocks fall awayThrough Lilydale, Mooroolbark, Montrose and Mount Evelyn a level building platform is often something that has to be cut and then held. The wall and the site cut are the same job.
- Access is usually the constraintEstablished gardens, single driveways and neighbours on both sides. The method gets planned around the constraint before a machine is booked.
- Older walls are reaching the endTimber and dry stacked walls put in decades ago are now holding ground they were never designed to hold. Replacement is a large part of the local work.
- The permit sits with usWalls over a metre, or carrying a structure or a driveway, generally need a building permit. As a registered building practitioner that pathway sits with the builder rather than with you.
Coverage
Where the Lilydale crew works
Close enough for a site visit without a travel line on the quote.
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The immediate area
Lilydale, Mooroolbark, Chirnside Park, Montrose, Mount Evelyn, Kilsyth, Croydon and Ringwood. Same day site attendance is realistic here, which matters most when an excavation turns up something unexpected.
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The Yarra Valley and the ranges
Yarra Junction, Healesville, Warburton, Olinda and Belgrave. Steeper ground, more rock and tighter access, which is the work the business is set up for.
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Melbourne wide for substantial walls
Larger engineered and replacement projects are taken across Melbourne. Distance is a program question rather than a capability one.
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What we are not
Not a landscaping business and not a general earthmoving contractor. Garden walls under a metre are somebody else's trade and we will say so.
Ten minutes up the road
If the site is around Lilydale, a look at it is usually quicker than a phone conversation about it. Send the address, the fall and any engineering you already have.