Bigfoot System Offers New Alternative For Building Construction Tube Fittings

A few years ago, Canadian General Contractor Kirk Swinimer was faced with a project repairing a deck that had shifted and heaved. His crew dreaded the headache of having to replace 16 concrete tube footings that weren’t doing the job. After struggling for a few days on the job, he invented a new way of building construction tube footings. The result is a new product called the Bigfoot Systems™ footing form, which has been on the market for nearly two years now and is a new item being carried at Spenard Builders Supply in Alaska.

Bigfoot Systems™ footing form is an innovative product that saves time, money and aggravation, and reduces labor costs by as much as 90 percent when constructing concrete construction tube footings. It is an easy-to-use footing form made of sturdy, lightweight, post-consumer, recycled, high-density polyethylene plastic. Quality engineering provides greater structural stability, safety and convenience. The tube and footing form are poured as one unit, which eliminates the hassle of building individual wooden boxes. It also protects from frost heaves and effectively sheds water away from the footing.

Bigfoot Systems™ footing forms have a multitude of uses above and below the ground including for cottages, gazebos, sunrooms, verandahs, gate posts, stack posts, fence posts, screen rooms, storage sheds, permanent and portable signs, wharfs, carports, moorings, additions, pole barns, raised decks, capitals for columns, footings for mobile homes and a funnel for pouring. The product would be used primarily in residential building-type applications, light commercial and some industrial applications.

For additional information, see your SBS representative or visit the web site at www.bigfootsystems.com.