has anyone used these? I’m going to be building a 5m x 4m garden room in my back garden, the access is restricted so I can’t get a mini/ micro digger in, so I thought they’d save a lot of digging. I’m aware there’s cheaper Chinese ones but I’ll be using the made in Finland ones
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Jay w, good evening.
Short answer is yes, I have instructed the use of "Shire piles" on a load of Subsidence repair, Insurance repair jobs. They worked every time.
In answer to your question, sorry I have only used the system above, to be honest, I do not know where they are made?
Bottom line is that this type of "system" does really work well.
Ken.
Short answer is yes, I have instructed the use of "Shire piles" on a load of Subsidence repair, Insurance repair jobs. They worked every time.
In answer to your question, sorry I have only used the system above, to be honest, I do not know where they are made?
Bottom line is that this type of "system" does really work well.
Ken.
I looked into these a little as I was thinking of a garden room. They appear to be a good solution although they have weight limits used on the number of ground screws you install; affected by the size of the building you are planning. This is assuming you mean the garden screws that you can literally screw in by hand and brute force? I might have a look at the Finland ones, do you have a link?
Acura Chris, the website I was looking at was https://www.ukhelix.com
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Are they sympathetic towards cables and drains?
Jay w, good evening, again.
As above, I have made use of "Shire Piles" which are not a DIY option, in that the piles are always driven by a hand held drilling machine, I have not ever used a hand driven system?
In general terms, Shire use a mix of pile drive [the amount that the pile digs into the ground] and time to drive the pile that distance, this combination of drive depth over time allows the "Design" of the pile to be ratified very accurately.
What would concern me is that because of personal fatigue by the person / people trying to screw even a small vane into [possibly] several strata will be inconsistent, screwing through [say] top soil, then a band of gravel, then a band of sand will all produce differing degrees of resistance to the person / people trying to screw the pile into the ground.
Using Shire [or their equivalent] power driven systems there is a well proven series of ratios [as above] of downward distance over time. There are no such equivalent ratios on hand driven systems?
If it were me considering this hand driven system i would be undertaking a load of research??
Ken
As above, I have made use of "Shire Piles" which are not a DIY option, in that the piles are always driven by a hand held drilling machine, I have not ever used a hand driven system?
In general terms, Shire use a mix of pile drive [the amount that the pile digs into the ground] and time to drive the pile that distance, this combination of drive depth over time allows the "Design" of the pile to be ratified very accurately.
What would concern me is that because of personal fatigue by the person / people trying to screw even a small vane into [possibly] several strata will be inconsistent, screwing through [say] top soil, then a band of gravel, then a band of sand will all produce differing degrees of resistance to the person / people trying to screw the pile into the ground.
Using Shire [or their equivalent] power driven systems there is a well proven series of ratios [as above] of downward distance over time. There are no such equivalent ratios on hand driven systems?
If it were me considering this hand driven system i would be undertaking a load of research??
Ken
I built my shed and adjoining garden office with a series of concrete pads.
I dug a hole about 300mm square down to good subsoil (varying depths -mostly about 600mm deep).
I then used SHS steel and put joists on top. That was for the shed.
The garden office, I laid 3 concrete strips 250mm wide then put 5 x 2 joists on top.
It did require a lot of digging out to lower the level due to 2.5m height restriction.
I dug a hole about 300mm square down to good subsoil (varying depths -mostly about 600mm deep).
I then used SHS steel and put joists on top. That was for the shed.
The garden office, I laid 3 concrete strips 250mm wide then put 5 x 2 joists on top.
It did require a lot of digging out to lower the level due to 2.5m height restriction.
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