Sparta Hellicals¹ is a small, family-owned business which installs helical piles in Northern Colorado.

Helical piles, also known as helical piers or screw piles, are a deep foundation system which consist of a central steel shaft with one or more helical bearing plates (or helices) welded to it. Piles are installed by rotating them into the ground — similar to screwing in a screw, but at low RPM and very high torque — until they reach the desired depth and bearing capacity, as specified by a professional engineer. The helices act as anchors, and together with the shaft transfer structural loads (tension, compression, and lateral) to the ground, enabling the piles to serve as the foundations of structures built upon them.

When site conditions allow, helical piles offer several advantages over traditional concrete foundations:

• Low labor requirements – Installation is typically performed by a small crew using compact equipment, reducing labor cost and sensitivity to labor shortages.
• Fast installation and subsequent construction – piles for a house foundation can be installed in just a day or two, and they can immediately bear load (no delays for concrete curing, for example).
• Low sensitivity to weather – piles be installed in cold, wet, or freezing conditions where concrete pouring would be delayed or compromised.
• Low environmental impact – pile installation requires no excavation, generates minimal spoil, entails less embodied carbon than concrete, and involves fewer and smaller diesel-fueled machines on site.

You can find more information about helical piles at wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_piles.

Sparta was founded by me, Erik Mikysa, primarily to self-perform foundation installation for Sashcara Homes but I also install for a local engineering firm. I can install piles which have an allowable capacity of up to 25 tons per pile, such as the Magnum Piering MH325BR

If you are interested in having helical piles installed for your project in Northern Colorado, you can reach me at "erik@[the domain name of this website].com" (I try to confuse spam bots), or you can leave a voicemail for me at Nine-Seven-Zero-449-9994.

¹ Why the name "Sparta"? It's an homage to my father, who played for the Sparta Prague sports club before he emigrated to the USA. And Sparta Helicals is short for a more grammatically-correct "Sparta Helical Piles"