Our Work

Docks, Seawalls and Shoreline Work on Central Florida Lakes

Every photograph on this page is work we built. No stock, no renderings, no other builder’s shoreline. Where we can name the lake, we name it; where a customer has not cleared their name, we leave it out.

Most of what we do is vinyl sheet pile seawall, dock and boathouse, and the stairs and walkways that get a family down a bank they could not use before. Permits go through the county, and through Florida DEP and the water management district where the scope requires it. (863) 934-6218

Seawalls

New vinyl seawall and bank access — Clark Lake

New vinyl sheet pile with a capped walkway the length of the wall, and a stair down the planted bank to the water.

Seawalls Lakeland

A finished grey sheet pile seawall running diagonally along a planted lake bank, with a capped walkway along the top and a timber stair landing where the path comes down from the lawn. — The finished run. Sheet pile driven the length of the bank and capped, with the cap doing double duty as the walk along the water. The stair from the lawn lands on the walk rather than on the slope, so no foot traffic crosses the planting.

The same seawall seen head-on from the water: grey sheet pile panels, a timber cap with bolt heads along it, a flowering bank above and a stair run climbing to the house. — Straight on. The same wall from the water — grey sheet pile, a capped walk running the length of it, and a line of through-bolts along the cap. The bank above is planted rather than paved: on a new wall, the planting is what stops a hard rain washing the backfill out from behind the sheets.

Community & HOA

Somerset Townhouses — a seawall replaced end to end, Lakeland

Sheet pile, cap and walkway the length of the association’s shoreline at Somerset Townhouses. Permitted through Polk County and finaled. If you are an association board, a property manager or a general contractor, the permit and the inspections are ours to carry.

Permit BLD26-01183· Polk County · finaledCommunity & HOA work Seawalls

Overhead view of a seawall cap being framed on new vinyl sheet pile — treated timber, a taut string line, a speed square, an impact driver and a box of screws on sand backfill, with a yellow floating turbidity barrier on the water beyond. — The cap, being framed. String line pulled and held, speed square, impact driver, a box of screws on the backfill. Almost all of a seawall ends up buried or covered — this is the hour that decides whether the top of it stays straight. The yellow on the water is the turbidity barrier, out before the first panel went in.

A new grey vinyl sheet pile seawall running away along white sand backfill, with a timber cap set on top and a yellow floating turbidity barrier strung out across the lake. — Sheet pile and backfill. New vinyl panels driven along the bank with the sand placed behind them and the cap timber set on top, ready to be framed. The barrier is already out across the open water — containment goes in before the first panel, not when somebody asks for it.

Close overhead detail of a seawall cap being framed — a treated timber held to a yellow string line over the tops of grey vinyl sheets, with a speed square and a cordless impact driver resting on the cap. — Same corner, closer. The cap timber held to the string line before it is fixed, not trued up afterwards.

In progress

Sheet pile going in — Crescent Lake

Vinyl sheet pile driven behind a turbidity boom, around a corner return and past the trees left standing on the bank. Cap timbers staged on the slope.

Seawalls

A new grey sheet pile seawall under construction along a wooded lake bank, turning a corner inland, with cap timbers started and a yellow floating turbidity barrier running the full length of the work. — Mid-build. Sheet pile driven along the bank and returned at the corner, with the cap timbers started and the turbidity barrier strung the full length of the work. The ladder is the only way in and out while the wall is open. This is what a seawall site looks like before the backfill and the grass go back — the finished frames go on this entry when the job is photographed again.

Docks

Covered dock and boat lift — Scott Lake

A covered slip with a boat lift, an open deck beside it, and a walkway out from the bank.

Scott Lake Docks & boathouses

A covered boat slip with a boat on a lift under its roof, an open composite deck alongside with two rocking chairs, standing on treated pilings over a calm lake. — Covered slip and lift. The roof sits over the lift, the open deck sits beside it, and the two share one set of pilings — a boat out of the water and a place to sit, without building twice.

A wide view of a covered dock and open deck reaching out from a grassy bank into a large lake under tall cumulus cloud, with a pontoon boat tied alongside. — From the bank. The walkway runs out over the shallows to the deck, which is where the water first gets deep enough to be useful. The dock at the far left belongs to the neighbouring property.

Standing on the composite deck of a covered dock, looking out across an open lake, with two rocking chairs, a boat on a lift to the left and a pontoon moored to the right. — Deck level. Composite deck, chairs at the end of it, the lift and the boat behind. The deck is sized for furniture, not just for tying up to.

A covered dock in near-silhouette against a bright sky and open lake, the boat under its roof and the deck and pilings reading as dark structure. — Against the light. The frame of it — pilings, the roof over the slip, and the deck running out past the roofline.

Boardwalk & dock

Boardwalk and dock — Mountain Lake

A boardwalk threaded through a planted bank, turning where the ground does, down to a dock at the water.

Shoreline & access Docks & boathouses

An overhead view of a timber boardwalk winding through planted beds and stacked-stone retaining walls on a wooded lake bank, mitred where it turns, running down to a dock at the water with a paddleboard and a kayak on it. — The whole run, from above. The boardwalk takes the turns the bank gives it rather than cutting a straight line through the planting — mitred at the corner, not butted. It comes down to the dock at the water, where the paddleboards live. It is shot from overhead because a run this shape does not read from the ground.

Shoreline access

Stair run down a steep bank — Little Banana Lake

A bank too steep to walk, turned into a stair run with cable rail and landings, down to the water.

Shoreline & access

Looking down a switchback timber and composite stair run with cable rails as it descends a steep wooded bank to a dock at the water’s edge, a lake and moss-hung oaks beyond. — The run. Switchback flights and landings down the bank to the water, with the dock at the bottom. The landings are what let the stair change direction and take the slope in pieces instead of head-on.

A timber entry platform with stainless cable rail at the top of a wooded bank, the lake framed in the opening of the rail, a live oak hung with Spanish moss overhead. — The top of it. Entry platform and cable rail at the head of the stair, set back from the edge of the bank. The opening in the rail frames the lake, which was deliberate.

A portrait view down a composite-tread stair run descending a steep green bank under moss-hung oaks, a green kayak stored on the slope alongside the flight. — Looking down. The flight drops away under the oaks, with the kayak stored alongside it rather than carried up and down.

One of these jobs is written up end to end. A seawall and a low launch dock in South Lakeland, from the first look at the bank to the last board — read it in Notes from the Horizon