Talk through your site

What to have to hand

1. The address. Which creek you are on tells us more than almost anything else.
2. The survey or plat, if you have one. Ideally one that shows the critical line. If it does not, that is fine — establishing it is usually the first piece of work anyway.
3. What you want at the end of it. A boat kept on site is a different project from a place to sit, fish and launch a kayak. Both are good. They are not the same structure.

What happens next

A look at the survey and a site visit. Between those two, the questions that decide the project get answered: where the critical line sits, how far it is to usable water, what the creek does at low tide, how much room there is between the structures either side of you, and whether anything is recorded against the property.

Only after that does a number mean anything. Anyone offering a figure before seeing the site and the survey is guessing, and on a job where crossing length can vary by a factor of five between neighbors, that guess is not worth much to either of us.

If you are still buying

This is the best time to call. The things that decide whether a lot can have a dock — frontage width, neighboring structures, depth, the critical line, recorded restrictions — are all checkable before closing. A lot advertised as dock-permittable is making a claim, and claims are cheap to check and expensive to assume.

Request a callback

Send the address and what you are trying to build. We will call you back.