Concrete block walls in Bonita Springs FL - a wall that stays straight and sound

Most block wall calls I get come from people who want privacy from a road or a neighbor, or a yard wall that won't come apart in the wind. A block wall faces the weather on both sides, so the materials, the design and the workmanship decide how long it lasts, and those are what you should compare between quotes, not just the bottom line. The price moves with the wall's length and height, the footing, how much of it gets grouted, the finish you pick and how easy the spot is to reach. The schedule turns mostly on whether the job needs a permit and on the weather. Once I've seen the spot, you get a written estimate with your own number on it.

I come out first and look at where the wall's going, how long and tall you want it, and which finish you have in mind. The footing is the part you never see and the part that keeps the wall up, so every quote I write spells out how we'll build it. Once you've signed off and any permit is in hand, our crew lays out the line, digs and forms the footing, sets the steel and pours it. Then we lay the block course by course, keep it plumb and straight as it goes up, fill the cores the plan calls for, cap the top and clean up before we leave.

Some block work is really part of a bigger job. If the block is going under a house, an addition or a garage, that's foundation block wall installation, because it has to carry a building and not just stand in the yard. If you want a grill or bar area against the new wall, we can build the outdoor kitchen masonry at the same time so the block and the finish match.

The city decides whether your wall needs a permit, and I won't guess at that for you. In Bonita Springs, you can ask the city's permitting office. When a job needs a permit, we check with the city or county office for your address and file it ourselves, we keep you posted, and work starts once the permit is in hand. We're based in Bonita Springs and work in the cities around it, north into Lee County and south into Collier County, so we run that same check on jobs in Estero and Naples.

Plenty of block walls around here get a stucco coat to match the house. Florida's masonry trade has flagged that many projects in the state use a bonding agent, the coat that helps stucco grip the block, that's only meant for indoor use, so on a stucco wall, ask that the quote call for one made for exterior stucco. Florida's plastering trade also says stucco put straight onto block normally needs no lath or extra water barrier, so that isn't usually part of a plain block wall.