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Helical Piers

Our Helical Piering System will permanently stabilize your foundation and provide you with an opportunity to lift it back into place without having to replace the foundation walls. Our sturdy, steel piers are mechanically “screwed” into the ground to the proper depth based on the resistance of the soil, thus preventing any future settlement.

What Are The Signs Of A Bad Foundation?

  • Sticking/jamming windows and doors
  • Stair-step cracks in corners of the basement
  • Inward leaning at the top of basement wall
  • Chimney is leaning or separating from the home
  • Gaps in your brick that are seen as stair step mortar joint opening
  • Sinking/cracking of basement slab floors


Sinking or settling foundation isn’t a lost cause. If you notice any of the problems above, let our foundation experts in Columbus, OH, visit your home and perform a FREE home inspection.

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Helical Piers Key Features & Benefits

  • Patented helix provides more proven strength
  • 30 years’ experience in foundation stabilization
  • ICC-certified square shaft and pipe piles
  • Helical piles have a 10x safety factor
  • Helical piles have a smooth pile shaft for wet and dry soils to adhere to
  • Does not stress the foundation going up and down repeatedly like push piers
  • Works well in at shallow depths and expansive soils, sandy soils, non-cohesive soils and clays


Our piering experts will fix your home’s sinking or settling foundation with minimal disruption. Additionally, our foundation repair solutions are tested to be as effective and permanent as possible.

Helical piers are a flexible and straightforward way of stabilizing sinking Ohio foundations. Each piering repair is specifically designed to meet the unique needs of your home’s basement foundation, footer, and soil conditions. Furthermore, our foundation experts have at least a decade of experience. They can easily spot sinking or settling problems before delivering an exacting solution

Why is my foundation settling?

Settlement of your home can occur for a number of reasons, however, the most common reason is due to changes in the soils after construction of the home. In periods of drought, for example, the soil will dry out and shrink, causing settlement of the structure. In periods of heavy rain, the wetting of the soils can cause them to soften or washing the soil out from under the footing resulting in the home “sinking”. Finally, if a home is constructed on poorly compacted fill soils, it will settle due to the gradual compression of the fill.

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