By: wick craft
Submitted: 2008-05-27 06:06:20 | Word Count: 598
Building a pier seems at first a pretty intimidating move for a homeowner, even one who is familiar with living on the water. That’s something best done by professionals, right? Who wants to worry about making sure it fits right while straddling the water and the land. Not to worry. If you are looking to put in a new dock for your boat to pull into, the people at Wickcraft have created a breakthrough system for putting together a pier like it was a child’s puzzle. The pieces lock together easily, so one person working on their own can get the work done in a weekend.
How does it work? In Wickcraft’s case, the piers have been designed to work together which makes for easy assembly. Traditionally, piers rely on pilings that have to been put deep into the bottom of a lake and are part of a complicated system of supports and engineering. Decking adds to the complex and specialized aspect of the set up. With help from Wickcraft, those complex pier construction days have been replaced with something better and easier.
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With Wickcraft’s setup, you get a custom pier system that stands up to the elements, but is light enough that it can be put together easily. The new pier system comes pre-made with a deck, frame and walkway which take a lot less time and knowledge to assemble. You can have a place to pull in your boat thanks to the easy, step-by-step process Wickcraft has come up with.
Here’s how the system works. The Wickcraft dock’s frame pieces lock together using the posi-lock system, which is made so that one piece grabs hold of another and locks it down. After the frame is made, you add the decking on through pre-drilled screw holes. After that, the dock is ready to go. An additional feature is disassembly — the deck can just as easily be disassembled during the off-season months and put into storage. This keeps it from the wear and tear of the weather and will add years to its life.
The ease of the system allows you to build this boat dock on your own, so there is a lot that’s up to you. You decide the length of the pier and can even put it into the water if you want. If you do, you will have to decide whether you need supporting posts and stabilizing plates that prevent the dock from sinking.
That will be the one time in which you need the help of professional installers. If you have to deal with muddy bottoms of the lake, you will need to add larger stabilizing plates. But because the rest of the system that Wickcraft is affordable, you will be able do this without much cost. And, since the rest of the pier was so easy to build, there will not be much labor involved in the additional stabilization.
Thanks to the posi-lock Wickcraft system, there is now not much time or cost between wanting to add or replace a dock on your property and getting one put up. Wickcraft allows you to do it in just hours. Not too long after you start the framing of the dock, you will be putting your boat in the water and enjoying your space
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Author Bio:- Wickcraft have served lake front home owners since 1954 by manufacturing the finest, most durable dock accessories and landscape walkways. As a dock builder, their experienced, knowledgeable staff can create any modular dock or boat rail system needed. Customer satisfaction is Wickcraft’s first priority.
