Eighteen miles of barrier island with the ocean on one side and Barnegat Bay on the other — on LBI, nearly every home is a flood-zone home.
Long Beach Island is an 18-mile barrier island — Barnegat Light, Harvey Cedars, Surf City, Ship Bottom, Beach Haven, and Long Beach Township — with the Atlantic on one side and Barnegat Bay on the other. Nearly every parcel sits in a FEMA flood zone, much of it VE and Coastal A along the ocean and bay. Elevating onto open piling foundations is the standard for building and staying insurable out here.
LBI isn't one town. It's six municipalities, each with its own construction office, zoning, and height rules. A lift in Harvey Cedars is permitted differently from one in Beach Haven or Long Beach Township, so the first step is knowing which one your house is in. Our rules & permits guide covers how the approvals work.
Everything that comes to an LBI job, from steel beams to the piling rig, comes over the Route 72 causeway. That shapes scheduling. Many owners book lifts for the off-season, when traffic is light and the house isn't earning rental income.
Older LBI cottages and capes were often built on low block foundations. Today most of the island maps as VE or Coastal A, where open pile foundations are the norm. That means many lifts here are really lift-and-new-foundation jobs, with driven piles replacing the old block.
Lift the whole home above the flood line on a new engineered foundation.
See detailsDriven timber, concrete, or helical pilings sized for your flood zone.
See detailsBring a settled, out-of-level house back true.
See detailsRelocate a home off a failing lot or out of a hazard area.
See detailsElevation certificates and FEMA flood-zone requirements handled.
See detailsCode-height piling foundations for new coastal builds.
See detailsTell us which LBI town your house is in, and we'll check your zone and access and lay out your options.