Concrete Retaining Wall Contractors in Eastover, NC

Dry ridge, wet bottomland: two kinds of ground in one town

Soil survey points read at 60 places inside town show the split. The leading units were Roanoke and Warne soils at 12, Lakeland sand at 7, Lakeland-Urban land at 5, Cape Fear loam at 5, Altavista fine sandy loam at 5, Johnston loam at 4, and Wagram loamy sand and Candor sand at 3 each. Lakeland is an excessively drained sand. Roanoke is poorly drained, and Cape Fear and Johnston are very poorly drained.

A cut into a ridge and a face at the edge of bottomland are different jobs. On the ridge the sand drains and the bank wants to ravel, so the structure holds a cut. In the bottoms the problem is water that has nowhere to go. Same town, same range per square foot, two different builds. Eastover sits about 7 miles northeast of downtown Fayetteville, and the soils in the survey run from dry sand to very poorly drained. That's why we look at the bank before we name a footing, and why a neighbor's job tells you little about yours.

County zoning for an incorporated town

Eastover incorporated in 2007, and its Services page lists Planning & Inspections under Cumberland County rather than a town counter. So you'll deal with Cumberland County Planning & Inspections in Fayetteville, the same way you would outside any town. The Town of Hope Mills and the Town of Spring Lake run their own inspection counters, and Eastover doesn't. Cumberland County's zoning ordinance, Sec. 108(A), makes it unlawful to start excavation for or construction of any building or other structure, accessory structures included, until the Coordinator issues a zoning permit. Zoning permits go void after six months unless the job has moved along.

The ordinance text doesn't name patios, driveways or walls, so ask the county whether a stand-alone retaining structure counts and what plan to submit. Bring the length, the height and what sits above the face, whether that's lawn, a driveway or a shed, so the county can tell you what it wants to see.

The county ordinance also sets yard rules for accessory structures, and Eastover parcels can carry their own zoning supplement. Ask the county which setbacks apply to your parcel inside town limits before you lay anything out near a lot line. Our permit guide compares the offices around the City of Fayetteville.

Concrete retaining walls in Eastover and the flood share in the survey

Flood-map points read at 50 spots inside town came back 34 minimal-hazard Zone X (68 percent), 13 Zone X with a 0.2 percent annual chance (26 percent) and 3 Zone AE (6 percent). Roughly one spot in three sits outside minimal hazard, which is a sample and not a parcel ruling. Look up your address in the NC flood risk lookup.

Cumberland County's floodplain page says the Inspections Department won't issue a building permit in a Special Flood Hazard Area until Planning & Inspections issues a Floodplain Development Permit. Fill held by a structure in a mapped zone is the kind of work that draws that question. Ask the county before you raise a yard, not after. If the answer is a permit, we price the job once we know what the permit asks for, so the estimate matches what you'll actually build.

Fill and height change drainage for the lots around you too. We'd rather talk to the county about a low lot first than argue about runoff with the neighbors later. Tell us where the water goes now, and where you want it to go after, and we draw the drain run around that.

Bottomland footings: when the NRCS rating says very limited

NRCS rates Roanoke, Cape Fear, Johnston and Altavista soils at 1 for a dwelling without a basement, meaning very limited, while Lakeland sand rates 0. Altavista is moderately well drained, and Roanoke, Cape Fear and Johnston are poorly or very poorly drained. Those ratings are about houses, not retaining jobs, but they tell you where subgrade work matters. Twelve of 60 survey spots are Roanoke and Warne soils that flood occasionally, and five more are Altavista that floods rarely.

On those lots we dig the footing to firm ground and replace soft spots with compacted base, then lay stone, fabric and perforated pipe behind the face. The pipe's exit sits above where water collects. Steel ties the footing into the stem. If the probe finds ground we can't make firm, we tell you at the estimate and price the fix. A face that settles on soft ground can crack and tip, so we spend the time on the bed and not on the finish.

Our service page goes through the standard build, and the walk-through is where we decide how far to go past it.

Lakeland ridges: holding a cut in loose sand

Lakeland sand drains fast, so on a ridge lot the problem for concrete retaining walls in Eastover isn't a wet bank. It's ravel. A cut in loose sand slumps until the angle flattens, so a driveway cut or a leveled pad needs a structure that stands on a compacted footing. Rain loosens sand at the toe of the bank, and the footing and face keep that from becoming the next washout.

Sand also shifts the drain plan. Water leaves through the soil, but we still put in stone and pipe because a hard rain sends more water down a bank than the sand can swallow. Weep holes through the face give a second path. A poured face is clean. Block bends around a tree or a curve. Over about 4 feet of face we bring in an engineer, since the loads on a cut in loose sand climb quickly with height.

If your work sits next to a driveway on a state-maintained road, NCDOT requires a permit for connections within the right of way, applied for through the District Engineer, with no application fee. See our driveway page for town for that side.

Pricing concrete retaining walls in Eastover: ridge versus bottom

We price walls here by the square foot of face, poured or block, up to about 4 feet. The range is the same on a ridge or in the bottoms, but the line items differ. A bottomland job carries more footing bed and a longer drain run. A ridge job carries more cut and fill behind the face. Taller walls get an engineer's design and a per-design price.

Before any digging, the contractor calls NC 811 three full working days ahead. We handle that and tell you the date.

Bring the address, the length, the height and a photo of the bank, and tell us whether the lot sits high or low in the neighborhood. That's all we need to price concrete retaining walls in Eastover. Our town page lists the rest of what we pour here, and you can reach us through the contact page. You get a free written estimate with every line itemized, including the extra footing bed or drain run if your lot is down in the bottoms.