The weather cleared and armed enough to get the helical piers started for the additional spaces. These are steel rods, square (1.5" to the side), which are bored into the ground down to the bedrock, a helical disk on the very end. When the torque of drilling down with them hits the required resistance, you've hit hard enough rock to support the building.
The estimate from the engineer, etc., was that the piers should go down about 15-20 feet, with a base quote for 25 feet on the estimate. In reality, these are ending up going down 35-45 feet before they hit something that produces enough torque to indicate a solid groundwork.
The extension of the house will rest on five of these piers.
It was slow enough going today that they'll need to come back tomorrow to finish the last two. After that, the crew can start building the forms for the foundation.
The longer piers mean additional cost to the project, but it's not exactly something you can say, "Aw, let's skip it." Them's the preventing-the-breaks.
In Album Hill-Kleerup Kitchen – 2014-11-18
Talk about pier pressure…
Those don't look strong enough to support a house, but I guess apierances can be deceiving.
They're fine, The contractors, who are without pier, provided Dave with empierical evidence.
I suppose they would be pre-piered for piercing questions about structural integrity.
Still, if one of the supports were to disap-pier, I wonder how they would re-pier it.
Boy, if that happened to me, I'd be even grumpier than usual. Of course, Dave is by nature a happier person than I am. I assume he would invoke his rapier-like wit and reflect on the bumpier roads of life.
How could I possibly get through this without support from my compiers?
You do have supieror followers.
One only has to pier into the hole by your house to see that you needn't worry, Dave.
Dave's post title appierently started a pun war. Too pierfect.