Advantages

1. Easy to Build

One of the many advantages of the Permanent Wood foundation system is that construction of the foundation walls employ conventional framing techniques similar to those used to frame the main floor exterior walls.

Walls may be framed to any convenient height depending on whether the foundation is for a full basement or crawl space installation.

The ability to frame the foundation walls to custom heights allows for special heights in multi-level dwellings as well as the installation of T-bar ceilings.

2. Versatile

The Permanent Wood Foundation is adaptable to almost any design of house and fits a variety of floor plans for both level and sloping sites.

Design flexibility of the Permanent Wood Foundation allows single level or multilevel dwellings and accommodates homes and apartments of virtually any exterior shape or complexity.

Schools, offices or other commercial and nonresidential buildings can also be built readily on Permanent Wood Foundations.

The Permanent Wood Foundation can be adapted to a variety of soil conditions, including low-bearing capacity soils or situations involving high water tables.

Plus, since the Permanent Wood Foundation lends itself readily to major renovations, wood foundations can be expanded or altered with relatively little difficulty.

In remote locations, Permanent Wood Foundations can be constructed using no concrete whatsoever - an ideal situation where concrete for footings is not available or the cost prohibitive.

3. Strength

The Permanent Wood Foundation is an engineered foundation construction system designed to absorb and distribute earth, wind, seismic loads and stresses that would frequently crack and split other types of foundations.

Permanent Wood Foundations are very resistant to damage from cold weather and cracking due to minor soil settlements is greatly reduced.

This ability of the foundations system to 'give' with minor soil settlements and other adjustments reduces greatly the maintenance required.

4. Long Lifespan

The lifetime of a Permanent Wood foundation is at least equal to the life of the structure above. Accelerated laboratory testing of modern pressure treated materials indicates a lifetime of over 100 years with no serious deterioration.

Durability of the systems has been amply demonstrated over the long-term by in-ground tests conducted over the past 40 years by various Federal agencies.

In addition, preservative-treated wood in these tests has withstood severe decay and termite conditions.

5. Reduced Construction Time

Permanent Wood Foundations are quick and easy to build!