Case Study: How a Lakeshore Guys® Shoreline Handles Ice
Tom and Lori Cascalenda had an eroded, beat-up shoreline. They hired Lakeshore Guys® to fortify it, and to make it beautiful in the process. We did both of those things (as we always do), and the Cascalendas loved the results and kindly said so in a review.
“I have been in the construction business for 40 years. It is very rare when a large project like a riprap shoreline is done at your home and the professionalism, care and attention to detail blows you away. The lakeshoreguys, everyone on the crew, were fabulous. When the project was finished, a day earlier than expected, the final result exceeded all of our expectations. We couldn’t be happier with our new shoreline and would recommend the Lakeshore Guys® to anyone looking for a beautiful, perfectly sloped and hand placed riprap shoreline.”
-Tom & Lori Cascalenda
The Cascalendas’ shoreline, before and after:
Out of all the differences, what most separates a Lakeshore Guys® shoreline from all others is how our shoreline handles ugly weather. That includes high water, wave action, ice-heaving, and ice-jacking. Old Man Winter had been the Cascalendas’ toughest foe. Nobody can build a durable riprap shoreline in the winter, but if you build it properly during the rest of the year, it can survive many winters.
How did their shoreline hold up? We could describe it, but we’d rather show you. The Cascalendas were kind enough to send us this quick walk-through video, and to take some photos.
In the photo below, the Cascalendas’ shoreline is on the right. Notice the gap between where the ice ridge ends and our clients’ shoreline begins. We engineer it that way.
In this photo, you can see both neighbors’ beat-up shoreline on either side of our clients’ undamaged shoreline.
As you can see, the riprap stones don’t budge.
In a head-on collision with Mother Nature, you will be the one who walks away with a sore noggin (if you walk away at all). So avoid the collision. No shoreline can absorb the force of a lake full of ice, but a Lakeshore Guys® shoreline redirects that force.
Notice how the ice heaves glide over the shoreline in these photos we took even more recently:
If every winter (or spring thaw) makes your shoreline smaller and uglier, and you want to make it tough and beautiful instead, contact Lakeshore Guys®.
Although our shorelines are the toughest money can buy (and most often work as designed), please read our fineprint, as no shoreline (not even ours) is 100% ice heave “proof” in the absence of a bubbler system. A bubbler system can make for a great addition to our Armored shorelines, further protecting your lakeshore from heaving. Please contact us for more info on our ice heave resistant Armored riprap shorelines and/or our bubbler systems.