Helical Pier Installation

Helical Pier Installation Near Casper, Sheridan, Gillette

At Foundation Support Systems of Wyoming, we recommend foundation helical piers to stabilize foundations that are settling or sinking and showing symptoms such as cracked foundation walls, tilting chimneys, and jamming doors and windows.

Helical piers are the most versatile product for foundation settlement repair as they can be used for light loads, heavy loads, as well as any angled piering that needs to be done (also known as a tieback). They can be used to lift and support smaller structures such as the garage, as well as large structures like your home or business. No matter what size foundation job your home may need helical piers can handle it!

What Are Helical Piers?

diagram of a helical pier foundation repair

The distinctive appearance of a helical pier explains how it works to solve foundation settlement problems.

The helical plates attached to the shaft of a helical pier help to advance the pier deep into the soil during installation, and anchor it solidly in place when competent load-bearing soil is reached.

A strong steel bracket is attached to the top of each pier to connect the pier to the foundation.

Helical piers can stabilize settling foundations by connecting footings and walls to solid, load-bearing soils. The helical plates welded to the shaft of a helical pier are designed to pull the pier into the soil when the pier is installed.

By measuring turning resistance as a pier is driven, the contractor can determine when the pier has reached competent load-bearing soil. Piers are connected to the foundation with strong steel brackets.

Advantages of Helical Piers

  • Year-round installation
  • Installation from inside or outside the structure
  • Stabilizes both light and heavy structures
  • Round shaft has high resistance to bending
  • Can lift foundation back to original position
  • Below-grade solution not visible after installation
  • Warrantied solution to settlement problems
  • Designed with corrosion-resistant galvanized steel
  • A rugged foundation bracket design
  • An innovative steel sleeve design to avoid warping
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Our warrantied helical piers can permanently fix your foundation issue! Call us for a free helical pier installation quote today! We serve Gillette, Casper, Sheridan, and many nearby areas in Wyoming.

Installing Our Foundation Helical Pier System

The Foundation Supportworks' Helical Pier System permanently stabilizes settling, sinking structures. One of our foundation specialists can inspect your home and develop a free helical pier installation quote. We can customize a system that is ideal for your foundation and soil conditions.

To install helical piers, our contractors will take these following four steps:

Preparing a foundation footing for helical pier installation in Cheyenne

Preparing The Foundation Footing

For an outside installation, the soil around your foundation must be excavated to expose the footing at each pier location. For an inside installation, a section of your slab floor will need to be removed to expose the footing. The slab is restored after the installation.

A section of the footing will be cut away so that the steel bracket connected to the pier will support the wall directly. This approach will provide more effective support than lifting the section of the footing that extends beyond the walls.


Installing a helical pier system in the earth around a foundation in Laramie

Installing Helical Shafts

Next, steel helical piers are turned down into the soil until competent strata is reached. Extension shafts are added as necessary to reach greater depths.

These steel foundation piers are the strongest components in our foundation repair arsenal, and are responsible for transferring the weight of your structure to solid, load-bearing soil. Our foundation piers are available with a galvanized steel design. These piers are corrosion-resistant, for long-lasting durability.


Foundation repair contractors installing the foundation bracket in Gillette.

Installing Foundation Brackets

Unlike push piers, helical piers are driven fully and completely before their brackets are attached.

This is mainly because helical piers don't require the heavy weight of the structure to be driven into the soil. This makes them ideal for lighter structures, such as decks and concrete stairs.

Once all helical piers are installed, steel brackets are attached to connect each pier to the footing.


Foundation repair contractors lifting a structure in Casper.

Lifting The Foundation

Once all piers and brackets have been installed, the settlement of your foundation will be permanently halted.

At this time, one of our team of in-house foundation contractors will determine whether or not it makes sense to lift your foundation back to its original position. This operation has the potential to close cracks in your foundation and return doors, locks, and windows to their original functionality.

Expert Helical Pier Installation in Wyoming!

At Foundation Support Systems of Wyoming, we want to help you restore the value of your home through structural stability. To this end, we have a wide variety of repair solutions that can address foundation problems of any kind.

If you live within our Wyoming service area, we'd like to provide you with a free, written helical pier installation quote. Each quote includes a free on-site inspection, a professional consultation, and copy of our 90-page full-color foundation repair book. To schedule your appointment, call or e-mail us today!

Our service area includes Sheridan, Casper, Gillette, and nearby areas such as Laramie, Rock Springs, Cheyenne, Green River, Evanston, Riverton, Jackson.

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our service area

We serve the following areas

  • Aladdin
  • Albin
  • Alcova
  • Alva
  • Arminto
  • Arvada
  • Baggs
  • Bairoil
  • Banner
  • Basin
  • Beulah
  • Big Horn
  • Bosler
  • Buffalo
  • Buford
  • Burns
  • Carpenter
  • Casper
  • Centennial
  • Cheyenne
  • Chugwater
  • Clearmont
  • Dayton
  • Devils Tower
  • Dixon
  • Douglas
  • Edgerton
  • Encampment
  • Evansville
  • Fe Warren AFB
  • Fort Laramie
  • Four Corners
  • Garrett
  • Gillette
  • Glendo
  • Glenrock
  • Granite Canon
  • Guernsey
  • Hanna
  • Hartville
  • Hawk Springs
  • Hiland
  • Hulett
  • Hyattville
  • Jay Em
  • Jeffrey City
  • Jelm
  • Kaycee
  • Kirby
  • Lagrange
  • Lance Creek
  • Laramie
  • Leiter
  • Linch
  • Lingle
  • Lost Springs
  • Lusk
  • Lysite
  • Manderson
  • Manville
  • Medicine Bow
  • Meriden
  • Midwest
  • Mills
  • Moorcroft
  • Natrona
  • Newcastle
  • Osage
  • Parkman
  • Pine Bluffs
  • Powder River
  • Ranchester
  • Rawlins
  • Recluse
  • Rock River
  • Rozet
  • Saddlestring
  • Saratoga
  • Savery
  • Shawnee
  • Shell
  • Sheridan
  • Shoshoni
  • Sinclair
  • Story
  • Sundance
  • Ten Sleep
  • Tie Siding
  • Torrington
  • Upton
  • Van Tassell
  • Veteran
  • Wamsutter
  • Weston
  • Wheatland
  • Wolf
  • Worland
  • Wright
  • Wyarno
  • Yoder
Our Locations:

Foundation Support Systems of Wyoming
5321 Swanson Ct
Gillette, WY 82718
1-307-257-6525