Doesn’t pile driving cause vibration and damage?

We get asked quite often, "doesn’t pile driving cause vibration and damage existing buildings. No it does not and because of our experience in residential pile driving we use equipment well suited to working around houses.

We use adrop hammer to install our piles. Drop hammers have been used for several hundred years and are basically a weight lifted by the crane and dropped on the pile. The other good feature to a drop hammer is it does not hit fast, 6 blows per minute. Power hammers can hit anywhere from 30 – 120 blows per minute and that is where the vibration issues come into play.

In the picture above you can see that we needed to get creative with this home to repair the issue. We actually put a hole in the roof, used our drop hammer to pile into the affected issue and then had a certified roofer repair the hole. The home owners were amazed at how unobtrusive the process was and the outcome was better than imagined.

We can do this for you as well! Call us today! (414) 881-4833