Heavy clay runs deep here, so the pier drives further before anything resists it.
Spalding County clay is heavy and the layer that swells and shrinks with moisture runs deeper than it does further south. A push pier here often drives further before it meets anything that resists, and that depth is the point of the exercise.
The mill houses and fifties ranches around Griffin vary in whether they can supply the reaction weight. Where there is brick veneer or masonry, push piers drive properly. Where the construction is light frame on shallow footings, a helical pier is the workable option and we say so.
Where push piers fit, the lift is the reason people choose them. Once the piers are set and the brackets engaged, the hydraulics raise the settled part of the house back in stages, closing much of the cracking that brought us out in the first place.
Every Griffin home gets the same push pier installation scope, and the written price says exactly what that covers.

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