Piling Repair & Wraps in Savannah

What Kills Savannah Pilings

• The tidal band — Georgia’s range gives rot the biggest working zone anywhere south of the Chesapeake; a piling can look sound at deck level and be waisted thin at mid-tide.
• Marine borers — brackish river water hosts them; unwrapped older pilings are the buffet.
• Mud-line movement — marsh mud grips softly; current, wake and storm loading work pilings loose.
• Hardware corrosion — the bolts through the piling fail before the piling does; rust streaks at connections are the tell.

Wraps on sound pilings are the best money in tidewater dock ownership. Walk yours at a spring low once a season — on this coast that’s a genuinely low look at the whole piling — and score the six signs while you’re down there.