When the Seawalls Are Built, the Pier is Installed, and Your Boat is Dewinterized, Take a Load Off at These Lakeside Restaurants! Getting everything ready for summer boating was a huge task. You built seawalls along your shoreline, installed a pier and a boat lift for convenient access, and dewinterized your boat. Now, everything’s finally ready and boating season is …
How Seawalls Offer Both Beach Protection and Beauty
Seawalls Provide Essential Beach Protection and Can Be Beautiful, Too Seawalls are a common sight on riverbanks and beaches around the world, performing the important duty of preventing shoreline erosion as a result of wakes, waves, and weather. A seawall is usually acknowledged as playing an important role in beach protection, both by helping protect waterside structures from being devastated …
Siding, Seawalls, and Other 2017 Renovation Resolutions
Get a Fresh Start with Updated Shingles, Shutters, and Seawalls The new year is a time when you resolve to improve yourself in all sorts of ways—you want to become healthier, more productive, kinder, whatever it might be. What about improving your home, though? January also marks the approach of spring, when you’ll finally be able to go out and …
Three Rules of Staying Safe During On-Ice Activities [Infographic]
Have Fun on the Ice—But Learn How to Stay Safe! With every season comes a new selection of activities for you to enjoy—in summer there’s swimming, in fall there’s apple picking, and in winter there’s a whole host of activities in snow and on ice. Ice can be dangerous though. In addition to causing damage to property like boats and …
How Ice Threatens Your Seawall—And How to Stop It!
Ice Can Damage Your Seawall—Stop It Cold In Its Tracks! Take a look around in the winter, and you’ll start to see that how much of a destructive force the cold can be. Water expands as it freezes and contracts as it melts, and you can see all sorts of structures getting serious damage from that process, from roofing to …
The Greatest Seawalls in History
The history surrounding seawalls is vast and dates back thousands of years to the Roman Empire and the first century BC. The breakwater wall was built as a safeguard to protect Caesarea Maritima, not only from harsh weather conditions, but also to keep out enemies. This wall is still standing today. Over time, the construction of seawalls changed and became …
Why Rip Rap is Right for You
Those who grew up near the water know exactly what rip rap is and chances are you climbed over it a few hundred times in your life. For those who do not know, rip rap is loose stone that is used to form the foundation for a structure or breakwater as well as to strengthen structures near water. Even though …
Is Your Seawall Eroding?
Years ago seawalls were created with material including concrete slabs and rebar and were not designed to last for long periods of time. These shoreline shields usually would break down after 20 or 30 years. Therefore, Seawalls all over the world are in need of repair today. Thankfully, we now have more experience constructing seawalls and are more equipped to …
- Page 2 of 2
- 1
- 2