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Concrete walls in Odivelas

Yes, we deliver and install in Odivelas. Our warehouse is in the Greater Lisbon area, a 22.5 km from the municipality seat — about 19 minutes of road. The most common plot here is clay with layers of stone, which makes the installation average. It is the plot, more than the length of the wall, that governs the lead time.

22.5 kmFrom our warehouse

19 minTravel time

Clay with layers of stoneMost common ground

AverageInstallation difficulty

North bankDelivery logistics

SlopedGround relief

20–30 m/dayInstallation pace

Delivery from our warehouse

We have our own warehouse in Greater Lisbon. From the warehouse door to Odivelas town hall it is 22.5 km, about 19 minutes of road. The four stock textures leave without waiting for production; what is made to order goes into manufacturing first.

Delivery is made entirely on the north bank, without crossing the Tejo: fewer variables in scheduling and no bridge toll cost.

Distance and time measured by actual road routing to the municipality's main town, not as the crow flies. Within the municipality the figure varies with the parish.

Exposure

With no exposed water frontage, durability comes down mainly to the winter freeze-thaw cycles and to rain. Vibro-compacted concrete has water absorption of ≤ 6 %, which reduces the microcracking associated with temperature variation.

Reaction to fire A1: it does not burn or spread smoke, which matters in areas with scrub close to the property boundary.

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What ground you will find in Odivelas

In a precast concrete wall, almost all of the site time goes into drilling the post holes. That is why it is the plot, and not the length, that governs the lead time.

Average Clay with layers of stone. Clay and sand with layers of limestone in between. It can change from one borehole to the next.

What that means in practice

Varies from hole to hole. In clay layers the excavation is straightforward; when a limestone bed appears a demolition hammer is needed. Two posts 2 m apart may call for different equipment.

Average pace. Expansive clays call for attention to drainage next to the post.

In this particular municipality

Urban, compact and close to the warehouse. Separating walls between already built plots predominate, which almost always means working next to existing construction — a minimum distance of 350 mm.

Geological term, for anyone who wants to check: Miocene of Lisbon. Miocene series: alternating limestones, marls, clays and sands, with limestone beds between softer layers.

This is the municipality standard, not a guarantee for your plot. Two plots on the same street can have different layers, and old backfill turns up where nobody expects it. The lead time is only firm once we have seen the line of the wall — until then, what is here is meant to give you an idea, not to plan the works.

Each post is concreted into a hole of 300 × 300 × 800 mm, with 800 mm buried — the minimum is 700 mm. It is that embedment that ensures the wind resistance of the segment, and it is what the local geology makes easy or difficult.

Geological setting of the Lisbon region, the Volcanic Complex and the Miocene series pt.wikipedia.orglxrisk.cm-lisboa.pt
Geological setting of the Setúbal peninsula, the Santa Marta Formation and the Arrábida en.wikipedia.org

Level or stepped?

SlopedPlot with a marked slope. Here the wall is almost always built in steps: each 2 m segment sits at its own level and the top of the wall steps down instead of following a straight line.

What this changes in the wall

Expect stepping along a good part of the line. The wall is higher on the upper side of each step, and that changes the panel count.

An example to give a sense of scale: on a 5 % slope, a 50 metre wall drops 2.5 metres from one end to the other — five courses of 500 mm panel. That is why on a sloping plot the number of panels is not calculated from the length alone.

How we measure

Local slope median of 11.7 % in this municipality. Measured at 14 points spread across the territory, comparing the altitude of each point with four neighbours 120 metres away — roughly the length of a real wall. The median is used so that an isolated slope does not classify a flat municipality as sloping.

Elevations from the Copernicus digital terrain model, via an elevation API. open-meteo.com

As with the terrain, this is the municipality average and not your plot. A flat plot in a sloping municipality is perfectly possible — and the other way round too.

Licensing in Odivelas

The requirements are municipal: they depend on the height of the wall, its position relative to the public road, the property boundary and what the PDM for Odivelas lays down. We are not going to tell you it "is not needed" just to close a sale. Check with the municipal council before going ahead; if needed, we provide the dimensions and the drawing of the wall to support the application.

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