Heavier newer homes drive well. Light farmhouses usually need the other method.
On a Kathleen property the right pier depends on what is standing on it. The newer subdivision homes with brick veneer supply plenty of weight for a push pier to react against, and they drive cleanly through the graded fill to material that resists.
The older farmhouses are a different case. Light frame construction on pier and beam foundations does not provide enough reaction weight, and a driven pier will stall before it reaches bearing. On those we recommend helical piers and say so plainly.
Where push piers are right, the process is straightforward. Small pits at the affected footings, hydraulic driving to refusal with the gauge verifying each location, then a staged lift to recover elevation. Rural access means there is normally room to work around the whole house.
Our push pier installation scope is the same on every Kathleen home, whatever the Houston County ground turns out to be doing.

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