Perma-Soil-UK

installing overhead poles

When used for the installation of overhead lines you also benefit from the following features:

• PermaSoil vastly increases the foundation strength of the pole.
• Treated soil achieves C.B.R. of 50 or greater.
• PermaSoil can be used instead of a baulk or block.
• Vastly increased span lengths in all ground types.
• PermaSoil turns non compactable wet spoil into easy to handle dry compactable spoil, increasing productivity.
• Turns average/poor ground conditions to good or good/average ground conditions, enabling longer span lengths to be designed and constructed.
• PermaSoil can improve earthing characteristics of the ground.
• Increased pole life. PermaSoil's polymer hydrogel chemical structure repels moisture keeping the foundation of the pole dry.
• Foundation achieves full strength with 24 hours, no more waiting years for subsidence to take place.
• Allows for reduction or elimination of return visit costs to straighten leaning poles.
• Improves foundation strength in all soil types, including peat, sand, clay and gritty soils.
• PermaSoil is easy to use as no special tools required.
• PermaSoil is completely safe to use, and environmentally friendly.

Below is an overhead pole that was consolidated for a leading utility, the pole had failed to consolidate on five previous occasions, but just look at what happened when it was treated with just 20kg of Perma-Soil.

The working sheet is in place and we are ready to auger down.

We place some Perma-Soil at the area we will auger.

We now auger through the Perma-Soil, this automatically mixes the excavated material with the Perma-Soil.

As we feel resistance against the auger we withdraw the auger and clearly see the moisture rising from the surrounding water table.

The auger is shaken back and forth over the working sheet to release the mixed material.

After a number of auger hits we can see how much Perma-Soil has dried the material out and, of course, we can see the change in colour of the material due to Perma-Soil's traceable agent.

The sides of the hole are dusted with Perma-Soil to ensure the bonding of the reinstated material to the sides of the excavation.

The utility pole is put into place.

As we add the treated material back in and compact it, we can see that moisture is still present around the edges of the pole.

More Perma-Soil is added to soak up any visible moisture.

At the top level of compaction Perma-Soil continues to dry out the material.

The next day utility crews arrived with a cherry picker, but this wasn't needed as Perma-Soil had consolidated the pole so well that the pole was physically climbed that day.