Seawall Inspection in Lighthouse Point.
Fixed-fee seawall inspections for Lighthouse Point canal homes, performed and sealed by a Florida-licensed structural engineer. You receive a written report on condition, cap height, and the next step, with the price set before we visit.
A canal wall can look fine and still be losing the yard behind it.
The cap is the only part most owners ever see. The engineering questions are underneath it.
Lighthouse Point homes tend to stay in families or change hands slowly, and the seawall is rarely a topic until something forces it. A listing goes up, an insurer asks a question, a neighbor rebuilds their wall, or a section of lawn starts to sag. At that point an owner needs to know what is behind the cap, and a casual look from the dock does not answer it.
Much of the city was cut from canals in the 1950s and 1960s, which means the typical wall has decades of exposure behind it and may have been patched by more than one owner. An inspector who knows how these older canal walls were built looks for the usual failure points: opened joints, rust-stained cracks that signal corroding steel, leaning panels, and soft ground behind the face.
The result is a sealed document. Lenders, buyers, insurers, and contractors all treat a report signed by a licensed engineer as a different class of evidence than an opinion from a vendor who also sells the repair. We do build repairs, and we say so, but the report is written to stand on its own whether or not you ever hire us.
If you are weighing a repair afterward, the findings feed straight into our seawall repair team, and the companion page for seawall repair in Lighthouse Point explains how those jobs run.
What the Lighthouse Point report covers.
The engineer who walks the wall is the engineer who signs the report.
- Walk of the full wall length, cap, and visible panels
- Cap elevation readings along the wall
- Mapping of cracks, spalls, and open joints with photographs
- Sounding and probing for exposed or corroding reinforcement
- Check of the ground behind the wall for settlement and voids
- Review of weep holes and drainage paths
- Review of dock and lift attachments to the wall
- Condition rating with repair priorities
- Sealed PDF report
Why the cap height reading matters on this coast.
The city asks for a height-referenced survey at the end of dock and seawall work, so the number is worth knowing at the start.
The Lighthouse Point Building Department checklist for docks and seawalls requires an updated survey referencing seawall height before the final building inspection. Owners who learn their cap elevation before design begins avoid surprises later, and those who plan a raise can sequence it with other work.
We do not quote a numeric height standard for the city on this page, because standards change and apply by project type. The report records where your cap actually sits, and we help you confirm the rule in force before any scope is set.
Pricing is a single fixed fee, quoted from the address and a few details about the wall. It is not hourly and not per foot. When the report is finished, our engineer-sealed reports practice can answer reviewer questions that come back from a lender, buyer, or the city.
Inspection coverage in Lighthouse Point and nearby.
Neighboring pages cover seawall inspection in Pompano Beach and seawall inspection in Deerfield Beach.
Service areas
We deliver this service across South Florida — from Key Largo north to Palm Beach.
- West Palm Beach
- Palm Beach
- Boca Raton
- Pompano Beach
- Fort Lauderdale
- Hollywood
- Hallandale Beach
- Sunny Isles Beach
- Aventura
- North Miami Beach
- North Miami
- Golden Beach
- Bal Harbour
- Bay Harbor Islands
- Surfside
- Indian Creek Village
- North Bay Village
- Normandy Shores
- Miami Beach
- Miami
- Coconut Grove
- Coral Gables
- Key Biscayne
- Key Largo
Frequently asked questions
It is a fixed fee quoted before we come out, based on the property and the wall. There is no hourly charge and no per-foot pricing. Call 877-420-7220 with the address.
Yes. Elevation readings along the cap are part of the work, so you have a measured number to compare with whatever rule applies to your project.
Yes. A sealed report from a licensed structural engineer is the document buyers and their lenders generally want. Tell us who will read it so the findings answer their likely questions.
A typical single-family canal lot takes a fraction of a day. Longer frontage or limited access takes more time, and we state the expected duration when we quote.
We examine what can be seen and probed at and above the waterline, along with the ground behind the wall. If the engineer sees reason for deeper underwater investigation, the report says so.
It ranks the issues and recommends repair, partial work, or replacement. You are free to take it to any contractor. If you want us to price the work, we can do that from the same findings.
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Five fields. Same business day from a Florida-licensed engineer. Routed into our dispatch CRM in real time.
- Same business dayAcknowledgment from a Florida licensed engineer — Mon–Fri 8 AM–5:30 PM.
- Engineer-sealed reportAccepted by carriers, building departments, and real-estate transactions.
- Fixed-fee proposalNo hourly billing. Repair scope priced line-by-line.
We inspect, engineer, permit and build — one company, three practices. For inspection-only work and engineer-sealed condition reports, see our seawall inspection practice. Concrete restoration, foundations and building structural repair are handled through Souffront Structural.