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Foundation Repair Photo Album: Helical Piers a New Home

Helical piers are a cost effective way to help build homes in areas where the ground is weak and undependable to support a concrete foundation for a large two story home. Especially cost effective doing it at the time of construction instead of a retro fit to fix a nagging settling foundation problem. Replacing cracked drywall, seal leaking basement cracks, damge to the basement floor or worst replacing landscaping all add additional avoidable cost if done first at the time of construction.

Gear Head

The operator using a large drive gear head turns the helical into place deeper and deeper into the earth.

Adding a Second Section of Pier

Once the lead section of the helical pier is installed with the flights (Disk Plates), another section of the helical pier is attached and repeated with another section until the proper depth for each pier is reached.

Cut to the Proper Height

Once the pier is installed to the proper depth, it is cut and ready for the pier cap. It is surprising to many people that the water seen in the bottom of the dig out for the foundation lingers so long. It does so because of the clay in the soil that is disturbed. Even later with a sump pump water can be held for long periods under a basement floor.

Pier Capped

Each pier along the row for the footing will get a pier cap. The Re-bar inside of the footing will be installed around the caps that help support and strengthen the footing to provide the needed support for the home.

Center Support

The worker is preparing for the helical pier to be installed along the support "I" beams in the basement. Each "I" beam support post has a footing and helical piers are installed for those footings too.

Front Side with "L" for the Garage Area

The pre-footing helical piers follow the perimeter of the home's foundation. The lower left corner of the photo shows a tall pier needing cut to height for the basement "I" beam support coming off the corner of the foundation, far side, where the garage is located.

Rear Wall

These piers are at the right depth and the tubes will be cut next at the right height for the footing. Leaning against the dirt wall is the helical pier used with 3 plate configuration for the proper support of the entire footing.