Screw Pile Installation Services
At ADS Ltd., we have everything you need to make sure your screw pile installation occurs quickly, professionally, and with no problems. As a full acreage development solution service, we also offer screw pile installations for full foundations or buildings as a part of our robust development packages.
We work with landowners, contractors, and project managers seeking development aide around and outside Calgary. We are more than willing to discuss any aspect of the rural development process with you in detail.
Screw Piles
You want to reach your goal as fast as possible without sacrificing quality or safety. Screw pile foundations are an ideal way to achieve those goals.
Don’t get screwed by a bad foundation
Fast development is often the goal for landowners, developers, contractors, and acreage owners. You want to reach your goal as fast as possible without sacrificing quality or safety. Screw pile foundations are an ideal way to achieve those goals.
Screw piles, also known as helical piles, are an anchoring system for foundations. These “screws” will take on a structure’s load. Unlike concrete, screw piles can drive deep into the soil to form an anchor.
You can use screw piles on practically any type of soil, which is one of their many benefits. For developers working on difficult plots for acreages, screw piles can save a lot of time, money, and other excavation activities.
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If Screw Piles are So Easy Then Why Does it Matter Who Installs Them?
It may seem as if just any contractor can come along and perform the work. That’s not true at all. A botched or shoddy screw pile installation will give you none of the benefits and all the potential problems.
Other than a lack of skill during installation, a subpar service may also mismanage calculations. They may grossly misjudge how many piles you need for your full foundation or building. They may not know how deeply they need to drive the piles into the earth. If they don’t have the right equipment who knows what you could end up with. This can lead to your job taking longer and costing you more than expected. Forget about the dangers of putting a structure up, where the screw pile work was performed incorrectly.
The Benefits of Using Screw Pile Installations
Using Screw piles installations for your foundations come with several benefits:
Speed – It literally only takes minutes to auger a screw pile into place. But don’t kid yourself, it still takes skill to screw them in right.
Ease – Screw piles do require special equipment that an average excavation service doesn’t already have. ADS has everything needed to screw (for lack of a better word) them in properly.
Immediate Loads – You can add load to a screw pile immediately, there’s nothing to wait for as with concrete. No need to waste time waiting or fiddling around for your foundation, your screw pile can take your load immediately
Little to no site disturbance – It’s like we weren’t ever there. Screw piles are ideal for sites that need a delicate touch. The installation creates little noise, little vibration, and little disruption of other structures, plus there’s no spoils or leftover dirt to dispose of from drilling holes for concrete.
Easy to monitor – We torque it while we work. Screw pile torque monitoring can give you the load information you need during installation. In this way, you can easily tell if you need to drive the pile a little deeper to increase load, or not.
Suitable for all applications – Screw pile installations aren’t just for developers and contractors. Homeowners and anyone else that wants to build on their land can take advantage of a screw pile installation.
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Some Frequently Asked Questions
Many people ask us a lot of the same questions regarding screw piles installations. Here are a few of the more common questions and our relevant answers.
What can I use screw piles for?
Anything that needs a base really, here are some examples: decks, house foundations, light bases, fences, modular homes, wet areas, gates, under slab support and keep in mind they can work as tie backs to for projects like retaining walls and fabric buildings that actually need to be held down, not up!
How does a screw pile work?
Just like drilling a screw into a piece of wood, except the screw driver hangs off of an excavator and the screw is a big piece of pipe with a “helix” on the bottom. It just twists into the ground until the desired depth and or torque is achieved.
What are screw piles used for in an acreage setting?
– Deck foundations
– Concrete slab support
– Tie downs for tent/tarp buildings
– Light bases and specialized fencing
– House foundation supports
– Elevated walkways
– Flag poles and sign posts
– Underpinning and foundation lifting devices
– Tie backs and retaining wall anchors
– Manufactured homes
And that’s only a handful of the applications!
Can a screw pile be installed in any location?
No, there are some ground types such as coarse pit run and solid rock that screw piles won’t work in. An assessment of your site usually determines these factors. In some situations, typically commercial, test pits or boreholes may be required to determine the right piles for the soils.
What do you mean by 'torque'?
Screw piles are twisted into the ground with a high torque drive head, it basically produces a lot of pressure and they are forced to spin into the ground. For engineered jobs there are torque monitoring systems that record each piles’ installation pressure.
Can a screw pile be installed in the winter?
Yes, but it does require some frost drilling so there is a cost associated with it but its not usually huge.
Does a screw pile move around in the winter like a regular concrete pile or pier?
NO!! That’s one of their many features. They are installed below the frost level so it does not move them around like concrete!
Can you weld to a screw pile?
You bet, that’s the most common way to attach them to what you’re installing them for. There are several different types of caps and tops for them readily available and ANYTHING can be custom built!!
Do all screw piles need engineering?
NO, if there is no specified load going on them (deck piles or concrete slabs) they do not need an engineer’s stamp.
Do you offer engineering for projects?
We don’t have an engineer on staff but can easily connect you to an engineer with lots of screw pile experience. The experience is key, not all engineers work with or understand how to properly run calculations for screw piles.
If they need an engineer's stamp, how do I get that?
You don’t, we do! Again, there is a cost to get the stamp but on small residential jobs that cost isn’t usually prohibitive