Canal wall rock armouring services

Gold Coast Barges specialise in rock armouring canal walls or revetment walls throughout the Gold Coast, Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. Revetment rock helps support your waterfront revetment wall and provides excellent protection from tide, wake, and current damage. It also adds to the value of your home and improves the look of your water frontage.

Our team can visit your waterfront property to inspect the revetment wall and discuss the best approach to rectify and correct any damage.

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Rock armouring wall solutions

Rock armouring involves a rock top up to ensure your wall does not move. This can be carried out to walls with preexisting rock to ensure the rock is brought back to the original design profile and is doing what the engineer initially designed it to do.

Our services

Our team place the rock against your wall using a bobcat or excavator, then pack it tightly and neatly with a special excavator bucket. Finally, we finish the top edge by hand, giving you the neatest possible finish. We carry the largest load on the coast which this means we offer by far the best price per tonne. Most water frontages require 25-50 tonnes to top up their rock. Several sizes of rock are available and we can provide a structural engineer if you require for specific repair or preventative solutions.

Before and after rock armouring

This property had rock but it has eroded with time and the tide.

Here we installed geo-fabric in preparation for the rock.

After the rock is topped up the wall is supported and the canal is back to its original design.

Here the team is working around a damaged bank on a Gold Coast waterway

The completed project - the bank is protected. Note the tidy finish, we batter our rock so we get a great finish.

Minor wall correction project and rock top up

The excavator is battering a newly topped up wall. Note the neat finish we achieve.

Prescribed tidal works

Please note some works require a Prescribed Tidal Works Application to be submitted to your local council. Gold Coast Barges can develop this application for you, complete with engineered drawings etc. Contact our team to discuss further.

For more information on Prescribed Tidal Works Application for the Gold Coast here - goldcoast.qld.gov.au

Our Happy Customers

Perry Krits

Ryan and Dion were champions. Very polite and helpful. Great communication. did a great job with the removal and clean up. Highly recommended. Perry

Kathy Rynders

I found Gold Coast Barges fabulous to deal with, firstly in identifying a range of options to correct my revetment wall problem and then commencing my job within a short timeframe. I am very happy with the finished product and feel secure in the knowledge my wall has been fixed

April Colombo

Highly Recommend the team at Gold Coast Barges… Such a hard working, friendly bunch of professionals, their experience & guidance gave us the perfect boat ramp on a very difficult block. On time every morning & left the site very tidy. Couldn’t be happier.

Powelly 7305

Could not expect anything more from the team at GC Barges. At real short notice I was advised my pontoon was being installed within a week and I had an old jetty that needed removing and beach reprofiling to complete prior. I contacted Greg & his team got the job done within the time frame. Big thanks to Greg and the team Danny Ryan & Nik as they were all were all polite and highly professional. Highly recommend. 6 stars not 5 ! Cheers Guys Jason

Clinton Swanson

Gold Coast Barges are a major asset to our Company. Any job large or small on the water, they are the guys to talk to. I have used nearly every other barge hire company in SEQ and Gold Coast Barges have been the stand out. Very happy with their service, price and reliability.

Mitchell Taylor

Ryan! Is a proper top bloke, always willing to lend a hand and get dirty. On time, organised and a weapon with manoeuvering a barge

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