Galveston, Texas
Bulkheads and pilings on the water in Galveston. The wall that keeps the bay out of the yard, and the posts driven deep enough to carry what stands on them.
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Registered on Tiki Island Listed under bulkheads on the Village of Tiki Island’s registered contractor list. Village of Tiki Island contractor roster
Texas corporation
Mabe’s Bulkheads & Piling Services Inc has been registered with the Texas Secretary of State since November 2017, and the registration is active.
Texas Comptroller, franchise tax account status
USDOT 4128256
An active US Department of Transportation carrier number, with no out of service date on file.
FMCSA SAFER company snapshot
Tiki Island CR-403
On the Village of Tiki Island’s registered contractor list under bulkheads, on the 2022, 2023 and 2024 editions of the list.
Village of Tiki Island contractor roster
What we build
A bulkhead and a piling are not finish work. They are the parts of a waterfront property that everything else is standing on.
The wall between the yard and the water. It holds the ground up, keeps the bay on its own side, and takes the weather so the property behind it does not have to. When a bulkhead goes, the ground behind it goes next, and the repair stops being about a wall.
Posts driven until they reach ground that will actually hold. Everything above them is only as good as what went in first, which is why the part nobody ever sees again is the part worth getting right.
[the rest of your service list]
Bulkheads and pilings are the two we could confirm from public records, so they are the two on the page. Anything else you do, repairs and replacements, caps, returns, boat house and dock work, riprap, tell us and it gets its own card here.
Send a list in whatever form is easiest. We write the copy from your facts if you would rather not.
The work
Most of a bulkhead is underwater, underground, or behind the wall. Here is what is down there and why it matters when something starts to move.
Above the water there is a cap and a few feet of face. Below it the sheets run down past the mud line into ground that holds, and behind it a rod ties the wall back to an anchor buried in the fill. A wall almost never fails at the part you were looking at.
Rain and tide put water in the ground behind the wall, and it needs a way through. When the weeps are blocked the pressure stays behind the wall instead, and that pressure is what leans a bulkhead out over the water.
Soft spots, sinkholes and a lawn that keeps dropping near the edge usually mean fill is washing out through a seam. The wall is still standing. It is just emptying the yard into the bay a little at a time.
Length above the ground is the part people look at. What decides whether a piling holds is the ground it finally gets to, and how far past soft material it had to go to get there.
Where we work
Tiki Island
Registered with the Village as a bulkhead contractor, licence CR-403.
Village of Tiki Island contractor roster
Galveston
Where the company is based and registered.
Texas Comptroller, franchise tax account status
[the rest of your service area]
Two places are on this list because two places are in the public record. Tell us how far you actually travel, whether that is the rest of Galveston County, the bay side, Hitchcock and Bacliff, or anywhere a barge will reach, and the list grows to match.
If there is anywhere you would rather not be called about, that works the same way.
What to expect
Four things make the first conversation a short one, and every one of them takes about ten minutes in your own yard.
Sight along the top of the wall from one end. A bulkhead that has started out over the water shows it there first, long before it shows anywhere else.
Length along the water, in feet, in round numbers. It is the first number in every bulkhead conversation there has ever been.
One from each end of the run, one straight on from the water side, and one of any place the ground has dropped. Pictures answer questions a description cannot.
Some runs are worked from the yard and some only from the water. Saying which one yours looks like gets a straight answer back sooner.
[what your customers say]
There are no reviews of this business anywhere online, so there are none on this page. We do not write them and never will.
Send us the ones you want shown, from anywhere, or the names of customers who would say it themselves, and they go here as a designed section with the customer’s name under each one.
A length, a town, and whether it is a wall going in or a wall going over. That is enough to start with.
Mabe’s Bulkheads & Piling
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