Street and water line replacement in Lakeview
Lakeview streets have been coming up in sections for years, replacing water and drainage lines under pavement that the ground kept moving. A Lakeview street job closes a block or two at a time, so the unit sits at the closed end and moves forward as the Lakeview crew advances.
Residents in Lakeview live right around the work. A Lakeview homeowner backing out past a trench does not need a restroom in the sight line, so we set it against the work zone and keep it clean.
Raised houses and Lakeview home projects
Lakeview still has houses going up on piers and slabs being replaced, two decades on from the flood. A Lakeview renovation of that size takes one standard unit at the drive end for months, usually with a handwashing stand once the interior trades arrive. Drive aprons here are fragile. A Lakeview driveway cracked by settlement will not take a loaded truck, so we set from the street rather than backing in. Most Lakeview homeowners appreciate being asked first.
Canals, pumps and the Lakeview year
Lakeview sits between the 17th Street and Orleans Avenue canals with pump stations and rebuilt floodwalls holding the line. The ground is old lake bottom, and a Lakeview unit left on bare soil will drop a corner inside a month, so plank goes under every Lakeview setting. Subsidence keeps working on the Lakeview slabs and sidewalks long after a rebuild finishes, which is why we re-level at the first visit.
Summer runs the schedule. Heat and humidity across Lakeview mean twice weekly service on anything with a crew, and we book that from the start rather than adding it later.