We began constructing the gabion wall for Lynne Forbes at the end of April, following a site visit with her.
She wanted a 40-meter-long gabion wall to retain soil for the lawn area of her newly built house in Constantia Nek, which boasts a lovely view of the Table Mountain Nature Reserve. We immediately started excavation on-site during the first week. Despite some rain delays, we laid down the geotextile and began assembling the gabion baskets, preparing them for rock fill the following week.
From start to finish, the project progressed seamlessly, aside from the inevitable rain delays typical of Cape Town’s rainy season. After completing the initial 40-meter section of the gabion wall, Lynne requested an amendment, adding a 4-meter buttress at the end of the wall.
In Phase 2 of the project, we tackled the entrance driveway to the home. This phase involved constructing a 10-metre gabion wall, 1 metre in height, curving at the entrance. For this section, we used Table Mountain sandstone, which complements the natural surroundings beautifully.
South African manufactured Class-A Galvanised or with Grey PVC coated Hexagonal woven mesh or Square Weldmesh baskets and mattresses.
Protect the integrity of your gabion basket installation with high-quality geotextiles between your gabion structures and the soil.
Sandbags are an ideal solution when it comes to soil erosion protection, and diverting floodwaters away from sensitive installations or homes.
These blankets promote vegetation growth when combined with your gabion structure and help retain the important topsoil.
Heavy rocks need heavy transport. Our Barrows were specially designed to transport our quality products.
Hexagonal woven mesh is the perfect product for rockfall mesh netting and to cover large areas of river mattresses quickly.
Fully made up Gabion baskets or mesh rolls/panels are offered for more flexible use on building or civil engineering construction sites.
This cylindrical-shaped sack gabion is filled to 75% capacity with rock and used in restricted areas or to act as foundation for gabion river structures.
Only need a small retaining wall up to 1.5m height? Why not use local rock with our small 300 x 300mm cross-section Gab-Bloc Gabion?
The smaller Garden Gabion can be used at home for terracing and smaller Gabion retaining walls, or even internal feature/ decorative walls, or raised garden beds.
We offer a custom designed, suited to feature aesthetically pleasing Gabion Planter feature which is sure to turn heads and get lots of interest.
These units are suitable for filling with earth, sand, gravel, crushed rock and other granular materials.
We supply non weathered rock for gabion and rip rap protection and feature structures, many colors are available, size 100-250mm.
We supply a tool kit that makes the installation process much easier and neater.