<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/?attachment_id=805" rel="attachment wp-att-805"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-805" alt="screw-piles" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/screw-piles.jpg" width="150" height="200" /></a><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px;">We have the ground survey report and the site has varying depth of a loam/sand soil with an underlying Kimmeridge clay. Our plot has about 7 metres of loose soil and sand before we get into the clay and so we are going to need pile foundations that go down at least 8 metres possibly more.</span>

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; color: #0000ff;">The cost of piles can be up to 25% more than standard foundations however there may be savings because there is no spoil to be removed. At the moment we don't know how this is going to pan out so we await the engineers who will decide what foundation will be required to keep our timber frame standing for the next 100 years or more.</span>