This outdoor shower is built on Vancouver Island Postech screw piles. The uneven nature of the ground and its poor quality made a concrete foundation nearly impossible to build. How ever with the quick install screw piles the shower was immediately ready to build!
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Parksville Deck
Use Postech screw piles for your next deck project or save an already installed deck! No digging, no footing, no concrete and quick to install screw piles will simplify your next project.
Screw Piles in the Woods for a Sauna on a Deck
Six screw piles installed among the trees in Metchosin for a future sauna and deck. Our small 39 inch wide excavator is unobtrusive and is ideal to install screw pile foundations in places concrete won’t work.
New Efficient Machinery
We would like to welcome the newest member of the Vancouver Island Postech team! A 9,000lb Bobcat E35 excavator combined with new auger drivers with 12,000lb and 8,000lbs of torque. This combination has highly effective results such as the ability to drive a 7ft long pile with a 14inch helix into the ground in two minutes. With a rig […]
Gabriola Island, Foundation on a Midden
We installed twelve screw piles in a midden to extend Paul’s house. Each individual pile has a weight bearing capacity of over 15,000lbs. All twelve piles were installed and immediately ready to build on in just three hours. If Paul were to use a traditional concrete foundation the prep work alone would take days to complete. We saved […]
Gulf Islands Building Foundation
Postech Screw Piles are great foundation solutions for Gulf Islands such as Pender Island, Saturna Island, Mayne Island, Saltspring Island, Thetis Island , Gabriola Island and beyond. We have completed many successful pile installations on the Gulf Islands in sensitive riparian zones, First Nations Middens and restrictive waterfront locations for decks, solar and complete house foundations. […]
Piles Installed Under Trailer Home
Trailer home and deck on hillside needed new footings to support the addition and deck on the waterfront side of the home. Installing Postech Screw piles under the building and on the hillside was manageable for our compact pile installation equipment. New posts and beams will be supported by the screw piles to support the […]
Sinking and Rolling Concrete Footing
Carport concrete footing and post support sinking and rolling outward due to soft ground. Testing determined that there was approximately 10ft of loose fill that could not support the weight of the house. 3 ten foot vertical piles reached bearing ground to support the vertical load will 3 angle piles will prevent the footing from […]
Mobile Home Foundations
Mobile Home Foundation on Postech Screw Piles, the flat plate adjustable height cap can either be bolted or welded to the mobile homes frame.
Shed Foundations
Piles make great foundations for sheds and can be installed under existing existing buildings and in tight spaces.