In December 2023, we were approached by the board of trustees for one of the premier estates in Umdloti, KZN.
They experienced washaways with the floods in 2022 and a few heavy storms thereafter.
A section of the embankment bordering the estate washed away, thus undermining the estate’s parking area. The need for retaining was imperative to avoid serious damage to the estate.
The Gabion Baskets team was called in, a survey was conducted, and a quote was supplied to the client. The wall consisted of several heights ranging from 3 to 5 metres high, and the attached designs were used to accomplish the installation.
We further placed a mattress at the top of the embankment to prevent washaway around the gabion wall, further strengthening the wall and protecting the property.
The project started in May 2024 and was finished in July 2024.
During the build, several challenges were faced regarding the movement of the embankment while carting materials. This afforded us the opportunity to explore better, safer working conditions for our team.
Our client is more than satisfied with our performance and the way our team conducted themselves on site. We have subsequently received instructions to also retain a further section of the embankment and hope to start that section early next week.
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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.