THE JETFilter are weephole drainage filters designed to permit water through a structure without causing erosion of material fines from behind the structure. All in a well designed maintainable front mounted filter.
Our ProLock Plastic Sheet Piling range consists of some of the most advanced sheet piles designs. Including our best selling product MultiLock®. These products were our first, and the original hybrid plastic sheet piles.
This range consists of a wide range of traditional U and Z plastic sheet piles, an impressive offering of budget plastic piling, and some rather advanced FRP Composite uPVC sheet piles.
Truline Plastic sheet piling is a modular piling systems with a rectangular U pile at its centre. Truline is one of the more heavy duty hybrids designed to be used with gravel or a concrete infill.
THE JETFilter are weephole drainage filters designed to permit water through a structure without causing erosion of material fines from behind the structure. All in a well designed maintainable front mounted filter.
This range consists of a wide range of traditional U and Z plastic sheet piles, an impressive offering of budget plastic piling, and some rather advanced FRP Composite uPVC sheet piles.
ProLock Plastic Sheet Piling range consists of the most advanced sheet piles designs. Including our best selling product MultiLock®. These products were our first, and the original hybrid plastic sheet piles.
Truline Plastic sheet piling is a modular piling systems with a rectangular U pile at its centre. Truline is one of the more heavy duty hybrids designed to be used with gravel or a concrete infill.
Welcome to our website, we hope that you find all the information you need on our extensive range of products.
If you are after pricing please call our office on 01543 677290 or email us through the contacts page.
So what brought you here?
Have our products been specified for you to use?
Are you looking for an alternative to provide additional value to your client?
Did you meet us at a trade show, or perhaps have been searching for something you can use to solve your flooding problems, or maybe a retaining structure needs to be replaced?
Your garden getting eroded by a nearby water course?
Whatever your reason, you are very welcome and we hope you find the solution or information you are looking for.
MultiLock® Plastic Sheet Piling
ProLock Omega Plastic Piling
Truline PVC Piling
Economy Plastic Piling
Z Vinyl Sheet Piling
U Vinyl Sheet Piles
What is Plastic Piling?
Plastic Piling is a structural, typically interlocking, profiled sheet designed to be driven into the ground to retain (support), exclude (barrier) or simply provided a hard edge (erosion control or scour protection).
Yes, I will repeat that, plastic piling can be driven using a wide range of equipment, handheld, post drivers, compactor plates and of course piling equipment.
There are several names used for sheet piles made from synthetic materials. Plastic piling is a generic term, most commonly used in the UK, associated to any sheet pile, made from uPVC or composite materials. The vast majority of plastic piling is made from recycled uPVC and so often called PVC sheet piling (PVC sheet piles) or for our American audience vinyl sheet piling.
Plastic "benefits" Piling
If you’ve been searching for a solution to retention, erosion control, scour protection or water exclusion, you have come to the right place.
Plastic sheet piling is an effective means of supporting soil, providing a hard edge or water exclusion. So for example if you have a pond or lake edge that is becoming eroded due to wind, water or animals, plastic sheet piling can be used to provide a structural edge. You can then look to reclaim your land or make the edging neater. Plastic piling is fast becoming THE way to produce fishing pegs and swims.
One of our core applications is water control, specifically flood management. This varies from crest or bund elevations, cut-off walls, flood fences to seawall breach repair. Plastic Piling is also structural and so can be used to produce retaining structures, revetments or quay headings. Comfortably up to 2m heights, with certain heavy duty products obtaining greater heights.
We also have many environmental application such a ditch blocking, construction of dams, weirs and sluice structures.
Plastic benefits piling, extending the use of sheet piling into an extremely wide range of applications including highways, waterways, railways, environmental and domestic.
So what sets THE Plastic Piling Company apart from our competition?
Firstly, our extensive range of plastic sheet piles means we can better match a product to your requirements.
Secondly, we have focused on and pioneered the introduction of products that have greater versatility and proven installation records. The greater rigidity of our products and the ability to use in conjunction with wooden posts, steel tubes, steel I beams, bamboo, ground anchors and concrete provides the most versatile solutions.
Sheet Piling designed to be driven.
Our range includes THE Original Hybrid sheet piles, that we introduced into the UK over 20 years ago. Combining recycled plastic sheet piling with sustainably sourced timber posts.
The concept extended to include steel I beams, steel tubes, bamboo tubes, scaffold tubes, reinforced concrete and most recently Dywidag anchors.
Our Plastic Piles have been used on the Waterways, Water Treatment works, Reservoirs, Seawalls, Peat bog wetlands, Fisheries, Highways, Motorways and Railways. For Major Civil Engineering Projects to residential landscaping and DIY. Piles designed to be driven, extending the use of sheet piling into applications that are unsuited to using heavy steel sheet piling.
It may be considered a niche product, but it has many applications, above we have emergency seawall repair, so has a place in contingency planning. Below, we have its use in the construction of fishing pegs / swims. We now work with over 25 fishing clubs across the UK, with more contacting us to find out how they can benefit from using plastic sheet piling.
JETFilter -THE drainage weep hole filters
Retaining walls, seawalls, and earth retention structures face serious risks due to water pressure build up and soil erosion. Without proper drainage, trapped water weakens these structures, leading to costly failures.
Where weep holes have been added to such structures sediment and debris clog these, reducing their effectiveness over time.
Inadequate drainage can cause cracking, wall displacement, and long-term structural instability, making proper water management critical for durability and safety
THE JETFilter is an extremely innovative product that can be fitted to both new and existing structures, to enable and improve drainage through that structure, without the erosion of material fines from behind that structure. Its clever design enables the use of geotextile filtration, with front access to enable cleaning or filter replacement. With more than 300,000 units installed globally it is a proven and popular product range.
Our comprehensive range of product solutions are designed to support and enhance the stability and longevity of retaining structures across various applications, including Marine Infrastructure, Transportation Infrastructure, and Water Management Systems.
The increased surface area provided by using JETFilters is perhaps the most significant difference between traditional weep holes and THE JETFilters. The conical design of the maintainable weep hole filter provides up to 210% more filter fabric surface area compared to traditional weep holes.
This in turn provides much greater and quicker water flow through the structure. The expanded surface area allows for over 200% additional water flow, effectively reducing water build up & minimizing structural pressure.
Traditional methods of using a geotextile behind a structure has a limited lifespan, as it will clog with no means to unclogging. Switching to fronted of structure mounted JETFilters allows for the site to maintain the filter. Designed for easy access and maintenance, ensuring continuous functionality.
The latest addition to our range, THE GeoJETs from JETFilter. This as the original JETFilter is available in open and closed ended, and serves to reduce water pressure behind a structure whilst eliminating erosion of the soil from behind. Where the GeoJet goes a stage further is that it provides multi-layered filtration and pollution control, as it includes biodegradation and hydrocarbon management.
The GeoJET’s ability to biodegrade hydrocarbons and the geotextile soil filtration work together to ensure that water exiting the system will reduce hydrocarbons and eliminate soil erosion.
This is especially beneficial in areas prone to high pollution and where the quality of water and soil contamination is a critical concern.
The JETFilter System enhances infrastructure longevity by relieving hydrostatic pressure and preventing soil erosion, maintaining long-term structural integrity.
Piling equipment hire and sales
Many who have traded with us, will know our historical association with APEhire, Aldridge Piling Equipment (Hire) Company Limited. Indeed, we originally traded as APE Plastic Piling, with the familiar APE Logo.
APEhire traded from 1972 through to 2016, specialising in small piling equipment, predominantly air powered impact hammers and excavator mounted vibrators. As a result it became involved with plastic sheet piling very early on, in its introduction into the UK. APEhire, closed its doors in 2016 upon retirement of the principal directors.
We are pleased to state that not only do we have the business name (company dormant), but all social media, web domains and telephone number (01543 277680) we also own the Copyright to the APE Logo. Leading to the hybrid APEHammerman logo’s creation which we use for equipment hire and sales.
For those interested more in the story of APEhire please read my LinkedIn article
Whilst our hire fleet isn’t as comprehensive as that of APEhire, we have focused on equipment not typically available elsewhere. Including small hydraulic handheld post and pile drivers, THE PD1s; small hydraulic suspended vibratory pile drivers, THE ESF03 and piling mandrels designed for use traditional excavator mounted vibrators.
Our PD1 post and pile drivers are popular for driving scaffold tubes for festivals, as much as for driving our hybrid plastic sheet piling.
MultiLock® and THE APE Logo are registered trademarks of The Hammerman Equipment Plastic Piling Company Limited
