Do you self-perform, or subcontract?

Dewatering and support of excavation are self-performed. Those are the two items most likely to stop a Florida job, and they should not belong to somebody whose schedule is not yours.

Will you price without a geotechnical report?

Not the dewatering. A number produced without borings is a guess that becomes a change order, and we would rather delay the estimate.

What makes tidal sites different?

The water table rises and falls twice a day. A system sized for the mean fails on the flood tide, so everything is designed to high water.

How early should this be planned?

At design. The discharge permit alone is frequently the longest lead item in the package.

Do you work outside South Florida?

Licensed across the state of Florida. Central Florida karst is a genuinely different problem and we will say so.

What is the most common cause of slip?

The dewatering discharge permit started too late, and a refusal layer nobody checked before mobilizing a rig.

Do you handle monitoring?

Yes, with thresholds and a written response agreed before work starts. Readings nobody has committed to act on are an expense, not a control.

Florida

In Florida, the Water Is the Schedule

The groundwater sits a few feet down and on the coast it moves with the tide. Every excavation decision follows from that — which is why we self-perform the dewatering and the support of excavation rather than subcontracting the two items most likely to stop the job.

Request a preconstruction review Call (954) 807-3208

Send the geotechnical report and the site plan. You get a written read on the water, the excavation and the risk.

Auger drilling into soil beside a yellow drilling rig — The ground decides the foundation.

Self-perform

Dewatering and support of excavation, in house

Tidal

Deep foundations in tidal environments

Licensed

General contractor, licensed in the state of Florida

Water

The variable that decides the schedule in Florida

Capabilities

What we self-perform

The two items most likely to stop a Florida job — water and the hole — are ours, not a subcontractor's.

Construction Dewatering

In most of coastal Florida the groundwater sits a few feet below grade. Any excavation deeper than that is an excavation in water until something is done about it, and what gets done determines the program.

Support of Excavation

Support of excavation is the system that keeps the hole open and keeps the ground next to it from moving. On a tight urban site it is the whole job.

Sheet Piling

Interlocking steel sheets driven or vibrated into the ground, giving retention and a groundwater cut-off in one system. In saturated Florida sand that combination is often exactly what the job needs.

Secant & Slurry Walls

Overlapping drilled piles, or a trench supported by slurry and filled with concrete, forming a structural wall that also cuts off groundwater. The answer where sheets will not go.

Auger Cast Piles

A continuous flight auger is drilled to depth and grout is pumped through the stem as it withdraws. The soil is never left unsupported, which is why the method suits saturated Florida sand.

Helical Piles

Steel shafts with helical plates, screwed into the ground with equipment small enough to work inside a building. Capacity is verified by installation torque and the pile can be loaded immediately.

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Ground conditions

What is under the site

Method follows the borings. Six ground profiles, and what each rules out.

Saturated Sand

The most common condition across coastal Florida: clean permeable sand with the water table a few feet down. It excavates easily and it will not stand up wet.

Coquina & Cap Rock

Cemented shell and limestone layers turn up across Florida at unpredictable depths, and they are the reason a method chosen from experience rather than borings goes wrong.

Organic Muck & Peat

Organic soils turn up across inland and former wetland Florida. They compress under load, keep compressing for years, and cannot be improved by compaction.

Tidal & Waterfront Sites

Near the Intracoastal and the coast, the groundwater is tidally connected. It rises and falls twice a day, and a dewatering system designed for a static table will fail on the flood.

Karst & Sinkhole Risk

Much of central Florida sits on limestone that groundwater has dissolved over time, leaving voids and raveling zones. It is the one condition where the investigation matters more than the design.

Uncontrolled Fill

Older Florida sites are frequently built on fill placed decades ago with no compaction record and no control over what went in. It may be excellent or it may contain a buried structure.

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The difference

Why self-performing the water matters

We self-perform the water

Most Florida general contractors subcontract dewatering and support of excavation, which means the two items most likely to stop the job belong to somebody whose schedule is not yours. We do them ourselves.

The water table is the schedule

In coastal Florida the groundwater is a few feet down and it moves with the tide. Every excavation decision follows from that, and a program that treats dewatering as a line item rather than the critical path is a program that will slip.

Tidal work is a different discipline

Near the Intracoastal the water table rises and falls twice a day. Systems sized for a static table fail on the flood tide. Our leadership has delivered deep foundations in tidal conditions and that experience is why we take these jobs.

We would rather find it in preconstruction

A geotechnical surprise at excavation costs ten times what it costs on paper. We would rather review the borings with you before the number is fixed than issue a change order afterwards.

Start here

Request a preconstruction review

Send the geotechnical report and the site plan. You get a written read on the water, the excavation method and where the schedule risk actually sits.

If the borings are thin, we will say so and tell you what else to investigate before the number is fixed.

FAQ

Common questions

Do you self-perform, or subcontract?: Dewatering and support of excavation are self-performed. Those are the two items most likely to stop a Florida job, and they should not belong to somebody whose schedule is not yours.
Will you price without a geotechnical report?: Not the dewatering. A number produced without borings is a guess that becomes a change order, and we would rather delay the estimate.
What makes tidal sites different?: The water table rises and falls twice a day. A system sized for the mean fails on the flood tide, so everything is designed to high water.
How early should this be planned?: At design. The discharge permit alone is frequently the longest lead item in the package.
Do you work outside South Florida?: Licensed across the state of Florida. Central Florida karst is a genuinely different problem and we will say so.
What is the most common cause of slip?: The dewatering discharge permit started too late, and a refusal layer nobody checked before mobilizing a rig.
Do you handle monitoring?: Yes, with thresholds and a written response agreed before work starts. Readings nobody has committed to act on are an expense, not a control.

Service area

Where we work

Counties covered: Broward · Miami-Dade · Palm Beach · Collier · Lee · Monroe · Martin · St. Lucie
Office hours: Mon–Fri 10:00 AM – 6:00 PMPreconstruction review before you price the job, not after.
Phone: (954) 807-3208

Talk to us about your site

Read our Google reviews — worth a look before you let anyone on your building.

No showroom, and that is deliberate

Romco is a service-area contractor. There is no trade counter to visit, because the work happens at your building rather than at ours.

Outside the immediate Broward and Palm Beach corridor we work through established local trade partners and manage the project ourselves. You deal with one point of accountability either way — the crew on site changes, the person answering for the job does not.

For anything urgent, call(954) 807-3208 rather than using the form. We would rather look at it than quote it blind.

Next step

Find out what is actually wrong with it.

An inspection, photographs of what we found, and a written scope. If the honest answer is that it can wait another season, that is the answer you will get.

Request a preconstruction review (954) 807-3208