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The pier is designed, engineered, manufactured
and installed by Power Jack Foundation Repair. This gives us control
over the quality of the pier and the cost at
which we can provide it to the customer.
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The Power Jack Bracket is the strongest in
the business. It utilizes a 3/4" steel plate
as its base, as opposed to the thinner steel
used by the competition. This results in less
flex on the grade beam of the home during installation.
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Power Jack Foundation Repair utilizes its Revolutionary Bracket
Cradle System. The Power Jack Pier cradles your
home as opposed to being bolted to it. Using
a high intensity Fusion Weld, the pier is not
reliant on a few bolts to hold up your home.
Instead, the Power Jack Pier supports the house
permanently from underneath, supporting the weight
with its own strength.
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Power Jack Foundation Repair has its 3-foot guide tube attached
permanently to the bracket. This guarantees the
integrity of the pier throughout installations.
Other companies use a separate guide sleeve to
install their piers. These companies fail to
protect the pier at its most important time,
called "the moment". This term refers
to the point at which the installed load is transferred
from the guide tube to the pier stem.
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Power Jack Foundation Repair uses only the highest quality materials.
Power Jack uses only J-55 or N-80 steel casing
for its pier sections. Other steel pier companies
use either Scheduled-40 maverick welded tube
(inherently weak in the seam) or acid flushed
steel (aged/deteriorated steel sent back from
overseas). These are clearly inferior. Some companies
try to cover up their substandard materials by
painting them. The paint will not help support
your home.
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Power Jack Foundation Repair uses a 30" section of pipe
with an 8" connector between each section.
Competitors use a five-foot section of pipe with
a 6" connector. Our system allows for a
total of 16" of connection over 5 feet of
pier as opposed to 12" for the competition.
This gives Power Jack Foundation Repair a stronger pier.
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To achieve optimal pier depth, the Power Jack
Steel Pier is open-ended as it penetrates the
earth to rock. This allows for the proper soil
displacement to occur so that the pier can penetrate
as deep as necessary. Some competitors cap the
penetrating end of the pier. This results in
soil compaction, reducing the ability of the
pier to fully penetrate to its optimal depth.
At the same time, the capped piers also increase
the possibility of pier deflection, further undermining
the integrity of the pier.
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The Exclusive Power Jack Steel Pier Driving
Method is superior to any pier installation method
on the market. Utilizing 70,000 PSI of driving
force, the Power Jack is able to penetrate deeper
than any other pier system. By exerting pressure
from the top as opposed to using grippers to
pull from the sides, Power Jack is able to get
a deeper driven pier with less deflection than
the competition.
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The Power Jack Driving Tower attaches directly
to the pier bracket. This makes the installation
process comparable to the pulling on of a boot
by the boot straps. The result is less flex of
the grade beam, which in turn results in less
damage to the home.
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Power Jack uses a process called Sequential
Lifting to return the home to as close to its
original position as possible. This process utilizes
independent lifting units for a precisely controlled
lift. This system is far superior to the "one
size fits all" manifold lifting methods
used by the competition.
