Sanchez Bulkhead & Boathouse Expansion
PROJECT COMPLETED
(Except the sodding of course)
Construction Completed
Before Pictures
Boathouse Construction
Boathouse Near Completion
Bulkhead Construction
About This Project
This deepwater project is the first of three – which features 14′ to 16′ galvanized steel sheetpiling in 6 to 7.5 feet of water.
The old boathouse is to be lengthened by 12 feet and expanded sideways with a new 12′ wide covered deck. The roof was raised by 2 feet which all required driving 28′ to 34′ pilings in up to 15 feet of water.
Ray’s Marine once again did an admirable job of deepwater piledriving under complicated conditions.
The new galvanized steel sheetpiling arrived as we started piledriving for the boathouse. Everything went very quickly right on schedule before the January rains started. After that our world changed, and not for the better as the ground quickly turned to a soupy mess.
Access from the neighboring lot required removing the fences and destroying the carefully maintained beautiful St. Augustine yards.
Then the demolition began and the first of two 40 cubic dumpsters was brought in and removed to the landfill in quick procession as the two neighboring boathouses were pulled apart and disposed of…. one at a time to allow the safe mooring and storing of the vessels that will go into them.
This redesigned and remodeled boathouse and the neighboring newly designed and built from scratch boathouse will completely change this 35 year old shoreline.
The bulkheads were very precarious after all this time and as we installed the new galvanized steel wall to replace the old wooden one, the neigboring wall fell out as several of the old tieback rods popped during a week of heavy rain.
We came to work the next morning to the sight of 35 feet of old bulkhead laid out into the lake. This of course vastly complicated the next section of bulkhead. But we had to complete this one first.
More stress and angst accumulated as we carefully watched the next project get worse and more dangerous almost daily. (See James Ard Bulkhead & Boathouse)