Most timber-floored houses can sit on screw piles instead of bored concrete piles. Your engineer (or ours) designs the layout and target torque, we install and log every pile, and the builder starts the subfloor the same day. It's especially worth it on soft, wet or sloping sites, where digging holes is slow and messy.
Why screw piles
- Nothing to cure, so the builder can start the subfloor the day the piles go in.
- Soft, wet and sloping sites gain the most: extensions take each pile down to firm ground.
- Every pile's depth and torque is logged, so the engineer signs off what's really in the ground.
- No spoil to cart away and no concrete trucks on the section.
Good to know
Houses are always engineered. The engineer designs the pile layout and target torque and issues a PS1; we install to that design and provide a PS3 with the torque record for council. If your plans show a concrete slab rather than a timber floor, talk to us early, as the piles and slab need designing together.
How it works
From enquiry to building on it.
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Tell us about it
Call, email or send your estimate. Plans help, but a sketch with dimensions is fine to start.
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Site check
We look at access, ground and underground services, and confirm the right pile for the job.
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Engineering
For consented work, the engineer designs the layout and target torque and issues a PS1.
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Install day
Set-out, then each pile screwed to target torque and cut to level, with depth and torque logged.
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Handover
The torque record and PS3 go to you and the engineer, and your builder starts straight away.
Other applications
Got a site? Let's get it piled.
Tell us what you're building and where. We'll come back with a quote, usually within a working day.