Helical Pier & Push Pier Installation Services in Berkeley, CA

The varied topography of Berkeley, with its high houses of the Berkeley Hills at the one extreme and its old foundations of North Berkeley, Elmwood, and the residential districts around Strawberry Creek at the other extreme, offers an ample variety of soil and settlement problems. The movement of the soil due to the presence of hillsides, clay soils, and the undulating layers around the fault zone, make most of the properties to sink on their foundation, crack walls, and become unstable in structure over time. Marin Avenue, Grizzly Peak, Buena Vista and Panoramic Hill homes are usually the worst hit by extreme slopes and dynamic soil configuration.

No matter where your home is located; be it UC Berkeley, Southside or even the flatter regions that are nearer to the San Pablo Avenue, the helical piers and push piers would be able to provide deep and reliable support in the soil conditions which often change. The way our Piering is designed in line with the geology of the area in Berkeley will help hold the sinking foundations in place, fix structural movement and ensure that nothing can cause any additional damage to your property.

Helical Piers for Retaining Wall Stabilization

The Berkeley retaining walls are always put under the pressure of the hillside, groundwater flow, and clay layers that do not have steady layers. Helical piers are used to strengthen and stabilize these types of structures like this way:

Stabilizing walls constructed on sloping or moving land.
Avoiding rotation, bending, or forward bowing.
Passing of the weight on the wall to stable soil at active layers.
Enhancing retaining walls that are old and have been eroded.
Reinforcement during retraining wall construction.
Establishing more anchoring where there is excess lateral soil pressure.
Providing stable stability on residential and hillside retaining walls.

Once the retaining walls have started to lean or crack, the helical piers offer deep structural stability that would be used to reinstate the structure.

The Relevance of Soil Testing Pre-Installation of Pier

The landscape of Berkeley is also an intricate combination of clay, bedrock deposits, slope-prone layers, and moisture sensitive soil, and, therefore, is required to conduct soil testing to build the appropriate solution of a pier.

Determining Soil Strength and Layers that support a load

The test indicates the depth of piers that should be driven in order to reach compressive and reliable soil that will support the structure.

Which System Is Best Push or Helical Piers

Soil density, moisture, and composition are the factors that determine which system is the most stable in the long term.

Designing a Support Plan Engineered

Through the mapping of the soil layers we have a final pier layout that is accurate, safe and designed to work in the special terrain of Berkeley.

Proper soil testing equates to having a more robust and durable pier system which actually corresponds with the structural requirements of your property.

Is Piers Able to Repair Cracked Basement Walls?

The cracking of basement walls is the common one in Berkeley because of hillside pressure, expansion of the soil, and the support of the foundation that is not even. These problems can be corrected by using helical and push piers which stabilize the foundation under the wall and avoid further movement. Soil pushing against the basement wall or the foundation starting to sink causes the piers to hold the structure to a deeper more stable soil that does not move.

The installation of pier in most instances can raise and re-align parts of the foundation thereby decreasing the stress on the cracked basement walls. Even though in extreme cases of wall bowing, more vigorous reinforcement or wall bracing could be necessary, piers are important in preventing the factor behind it; unstable soil. After stabilization of the basement walls, the pressure due to the movement of the soil is no longer subjected to be absorbed by the walls.

We Are Your Trusted Helical Pier and Push Pier Specialists

The work of foundation repair in Berkeley needs to be more than just a simple construction work, particularly due to steep slope and unreliable soil of the area. We are experts of engineered pier systems, which are used to make homes firm way down beneath the shifting layers which create the majority of settlement problems. We also make sure that each pier has an appropriate load and depth to work long-term performance since the beginning up to the end.

We collaborate with engineers, apply cutting-edge torque-monitoring tools, and make each one of our projects to the soil profile of the property. The foundation is sinking, the retaining wall is leaning or your basement walls are cracking, we will offer quality stabilization which is designed to withstand the harsh environment of Berkeley.

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Berkeley is unique in its soil and we have deep stable solutions perfectly suited to our local soil.

Get in touch with us now and find out the appropriate pier solution to secure your home in the coming years.

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