why screw piles?
SCREW PILES HAVE NUMEROUS ADVANTAGES OVER CONVENTIONAL CONCRETE PILES RESULTING IN COST SAVINGS AND FASTER INSTALLATION
DrillRite custom piling solution
Advantages of DrillRite custom piling solution when compared to conventional concrete piles are:
- Installed in under 3 min
- No concrete curing time
- Budgeting with fixed costs and
- No surprises
- No tailings
- No sluffing
- No unsafe holes in the ground
- Environmentally friendly
- Vibration free
- Superior uplift/frost jacking performance
- No pump trucks
- Quality of pile and known loading capacity
drillrite screw piles vs. concrete piles
drillrite screw piles
- No limits associated to climate
- Reusable, eco-friendly
- Screw piles are manufactured in-house and specifically engineered for the job
- Fast — construction can start as soon as the screw piles are in place
- Lower cost, less down time
- Minimal landscaping damage
- No frost heaving
- Clean, with minimal ground disturbance
concrete piles
- Potential for frost heaving as frost can stick to concrete, moving it up and down throughout season, causing damage
- Impossible to reuse
- Excavation, dirt, drying time, landscaping required
- Many pieces of equipment required and numerous people on the job site
- Leftover material, excavation needed, heavy concrete truck potentially damaging landscaping and paved driveway
- Excavation, forms, concrete, and many hours of installation
