Bill Vaughan

• RoleCEO and Co-Owner
• CompanyFnD Piers, Aurora, Texas
• In the trade since2005
• Helical piers since2018
• FocusHelical pier manufacturing and installation, foundation repair
• ServesDallas-Fort Worth, Texas and surrounding states

About Bill

Bill Vaughan is the CEO and co-owner of FnD Piers, and the driving force behind the company's steady growth and expansion. He has worked in the trade since 2005 and has focused on helical piers since 2018. His expertise is deeply practical: it is rooted in personal experience and hard work rather than in a management track. As the company puts it, Bill is not just a corporate leader, he is a man in the trenches, or more accurately, in the holes.

That field experience is why he is the reviewer of record for the technical content on this site. When a page here states a torque criterion, an installation standard, or the threshold at which FnD will tell a homeowner they do not have a foundation problem, Bill is the person accountable for it being true.

Bill co-owns FnD Piers with founder and president Norman Vaughan, who built the business from a foundation pier operation into a company that manufactures the piers it installs. The company operates as BullDog Drilling Incorporated, doing business as FnD Piers, from Aurora, Texas.

Published author

Bill is co-author, with Norman Vaughan, of NEXT DAY HELICALS: How Builders And Concrete Contractors Finish Pier Foundation Projects Faster No Matter The Soil or Weather Conditions (ISBN 9798335920919).

It is written for concrete companies and builders whose schedules keep slipping on pier foundation work. It sets out the Next Day Helical 7-Step Process, identifies four costly mistakes that cause project delays and how to avoid them, and deals with the part most foundation books ignore: what those delays do to days in accounts receivable and to cash flow.

That last emphasis is worth noting, because it is the same argument Bill makes on site. A pier that carries load the day it goes in is not a technical detail to a builder, it is an invoice that goes out a week earlier.

Teaching

Bill's expertise is taught directly through the FnD Piers helical training program, a one-day hands-on course run in North Fort Worth covering install workflow, torque specification and load capacity for contractor crews.