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Save Money Saving Your Dock
Winnipegers seem to have got the message that Postech’s team of helical screw pile installers can perform magic when it comes to underpinning a sunken deck, porch, addition or home. Recently, we put our underpinning skills to work on stabilizing … Continue reading
Piles Inside a Hotel? Call Postech!
Postech Installers have been on their fair share of “interesting” job sites but it was uniquely cool to drive through the front doors of a local hotel and navigate our way into the laundry room. Our customer was tasked … Continue reading
Screw Piles (David) Slay Concrete Piles (Goliath) In This Case Study
You are the manager of a plant operation tasked with the installation of a 72,000 liter liquid storage tank. You won’t be shutting down the day to day operations. In fact, it is expected that little to no disturbance to … Continue reading
Screw Piles & Light Structures = No Brainer for Manitobans
The screw pile industry markets hard that screw piles are cheaper than concrete. The truth is that screw piles can be used for a wide range of projects and, depending on the soil characteristics, they aren’t always cheaper. However, here … Continue reading
Baeumler Approved Screw Pile Company for Manitoba & Kenora!
Postech Screw Piles – Manitoba and Kenora is Baeumler Approved. We are very excited and proud to be a part of the Baeumler Approved family. Our status of Baeumler Approved means we are recognized as striving to meet the same … Continue reading
Affordable Geotechnical Investigations and Reports for Residential Building Projects in Winnipeg, MB
There is a strong push by local building authorities and engineers to complete geotechnical investigations and reports from which to base structural foundation designs for any residential building project that results in 4 season living space. This would mean that … Continue reading
Reusable Piles?
Today we had a pretty cool project. A past customer decided to take their backyard paradise to the next level and required 8 screw piles for their new deck. The deck which was being replaced with a new grand deck was … Continue reading
The Disadvantage of Helical Screw Piles
Typically we write about the amazing benefits of helical screw piles. One such benefit we broadcast regularly is in how we monitor the torque during installation to ensure the capacities required are met. That’s huge when compared to the traditional … Continue reading
Death to Soil Assumptions
Did you know that there is a good chance your home, sunroom, cottage or deck has been built on a foundation designed using soil assumptions? What exactly is a soil assumption? In Manitoba (and most other places) many of the … Continue reading
Cottage Lifted and Leveled On Surprising Budget
The traditional process for replacing a shallow foundation like post and pad with a deep foundation such as screw piles includes either a lift of the structure at least 6′ high or the temporary removal and then replacement of the … Continue reading