Highest Quality Foundation Repair Method Is Bell Bottom Piers The Bell Bottom Pier repair method has significant advantages over cheaper and faster Pressed Pile repair method. There are three key points. First, Bell Bottom Piers are built to be permanent. They are built as a single unit, called monolithic. They require more skill, more concrete, more steel rebar, and more time to install. Second, they have much greater strength than a stack of concrete cylinders. The clay soils under the home's slab foundation will place the same stress and pressures of soil movement to any support structure that is installed under the slab. The Bell Bottom Pier has a much larger base or footprint for stability, strength, and resisting upward soil movement known as uplift. Third, the Bell Bottom Pier has a much higher Factor of Safety. That simply means its weight bearing capacity is many times greater than the weight of the building structure. For more information please call Dawson Foundation Repair at 713-668-2110.