Why Choose Bigfoot
Not all footings are equal - and the differences are big.
Quality engineering, optimum structural stability, safety and convenience, make our products the leading engineered footing form available on the market.
Bigfoot Systems® Footing Forms are not only environmentally friendly, but they can be installed easily in a single day. This eliminates the hassle of building traditional wooden box forms which takes three days.
Not only do they beat the traditional wooden box method, they beat any square-shaped footing hands-down!
- Its advantage rests with its shape: a bell-shaped footing with a round base.
Bigfoot works with the natural laws of physics to provide an even distribution of weight that secures the footing to the earth --- something a square shape cannot do.
Doug Steadman, PEng, Texas, USA, says: "The bell footing was developed through trial and error and proven mathematically and scientifically to provide greatly increased stability when the foundation is on suitable bearing material. This is extensively documented since the early 1920’s and now a routine part of engineering practice design."
- Plus you can’t drill a square hole --- and leveling, which takes time, is a lot easier with a round-based product.
Construction tube and footing form poured as one unit, as with Bigfoot Systems® Footing Forms, eliminates the hassle of:
building individual wooden boxes,
possible frost heaves, and
water problems around the footings because our design effectively sheds water away.
Bigfoot Systems® Footing Forms have been independently evaluated and meets or exceeds building codes throughout North America. Bigfoot is an innovative product which saves time, money and aggravation.
Bigfoot is easy to use and made of sturdy, lightweight, recycled, high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Bigfoot’s attention to quality provides greater structural stability, safety and convenience than any engineered footing form on the market.
Bigfoot Systems® Footing Forms have a multitude of residential, light commercial and industrial uses above and below ground including: raised decks, cottages, gazebos, storage sheds, sunrooms, screen rooms, additions, pole barns, car ports, verandahs, sign posts, gate posts, jack posts, fence posts, permanent and portable signs, wharfs, moorings, capitals for columns, footings for mobile homes, satellite dishes and telecommunication towers.