We changed this one to a waffle due to the budget.
Also going with Hebel which is light it didn't really need to be a raft slab so between the engineers and our concretor we decided waffle was the best option.
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 41Oct 09, 2023 1:02 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 44Oct 10, 2023 9:07 pm Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 46Oct 13, 2023 5:29 am Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 47Oct 14, 2023 10:28 am Hi Everyone We finished the second slab pour yesterday. No issues other than a small blowout at the back of the pool coping, and we are very happy with the results. The next stage will be external plumbing, but as we need to drive a machine onto the slab we will let the slab rest and cure for 9 days. 7 days should be fine but we have a weekend in the schedule. So plumbers are booked for the 23rd. Following that we will jump straight onto framing. A couple of semi interesting things to note: 1. As we poured the slab in 2 stages ( upper and lower) there is a joint where the upper slab meets the lower slab. So being overly cautious, one of the this we worry about with a slab that steps down a hill is water that comes under the slab that might one day penetrate and come inside. So we are doing two things to combat that. Firstly we used a waterstop strip that was placed on the lower slab under the joint. It starts at roughly 10mm wide and when concrete hits it, it expands and seals the gap. Then as a back up we will waterproof that entire drop edge beam. 2. One of the things that adds to costs on a steep site is scaffolding. Rather then running 2 sets of boards as the site steps down they need to run a 3rd set. So scaffolding for this site is costing $7,000 more than it would for a similar sized home on a flat block. We messed this up in our estimation so that is a hit from our pocket. 3. One of the best features of a home on a steep site is the ability to have super high ceilings on the lower level. This home will have 3.5m high ceilings in the living area which will look spectacular. They also have a large window overlooking the pool and the bush beyond with a ton of privacy. I am absolutely loving the way this design is coming together. We have the most awesome concreting crew. I would be happy to pass on their details if anyone is in need of a super professional crew. Here are some photos of the finished slab. Enjoy your weekend Simeon Finished slab from the frontLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Living room overlooking the poolLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Drop edge & StairsThe recess on the RHS of the stairs will be a storage cupboard. The stairs are a bit steep but we were constrained with the design of the floor layout.Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Drop edge looking down into the butlers pantry Garage is on the left with a hobLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ WaterstopYou can see the green/blue strip. This expands when it comes into contact with the concreteLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 48Oct 14, 2023 10:50 am alexp79 Ashington Homes alexp79 Hi Simeon, so it is not a rafted slab I thought you have planned originally? Looks like waffle to me We changed this one to a waffle due to the budget. Also going with Hebel which is light it didn't really need to be a raft slab so between the engineers and our concretor we decided waffle was the best option. I see. What is $ per sqm cost for the waffle pod slab like this these days? Alex As promised, we just got the invoice and it worked out at $303/sqm. The drop edge beams were close to $18,000 so that inflated the rate per meter somewhat. Hope that answers your questions Cheers Simeon Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 49Oct 15, 2023 12:16 am Ashington Home Alex As promised, we just got the invoice and it worked out at $303/sqm. The drop edge beams were close to $18,000 so that inflated the rate per meter somewhat. Hope that answers your questions Cheers Simeon Looks nice! It really looks like a lot of concrete has been used. I think $303 is really fair for the slab of this complexity. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 50Oct 17, 2023 4:47 am This one shows the extent of the step downLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ A drone shot from the frontLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The alfresco and poolThe living room and alfresco look directly over the poolLike ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 51Oct 18, 2023 7:03 am Hi Everyone I am experimenting with some new signage on some of our more high profile builds. This one was installed yesterday. What do you think? This is an image of the actual house so the idea would be to include an individual facade shot for each home. Simeon Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 52Oct 18, 2023 8:02 am Looks heaps better than the usual temp fencing with a builder's banner cable tied to it. Its looks great and gives the neighbours and passing foot traffic etc. an insight into what's being built. The color contrast between the red strip and your contact details is spot on and gives you the best opportunity to generate some new business leads off of it. My only concern would be your banner traverses more than one section of temp fence and in my experience, where the temp fence is placed at the start of a build is not always where it stays. hope this feedback is helpful. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 53Oct 18, 2023 8:10 am KnockItDown Looks heaps better than the usual temp fencing with a builder's banner cable tied to it. My only concern would be your banner traverses more than one section of temp fence and in my experience, where the temp fence is placed at the start of a build is not always where it stays. Its looks great and gives the neighbours and passing foot traffic etc. an insight into what's being built and could possibly generate some new business leads off of it. hope this feedback is helpful. Knockitdown Thanks for your feedback. For this job we haven't used temp fencing. We have built a hoarding with steel posts concreted into the ground and then covered in plywood. We also have built two gates for access at each end of the property. So this fence should stay in place until the end of the build. This wider photo might make more sense One of the reasons we have started the experiment here is that we are very close to a public school and all the parents park in the street for drop off and pick ups so we get a lot of car and foot traffic. Cheers Simeon Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 54Oct 19, 2023 8:30 pm I like the slogan. Top points! 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 55Oct 20, 2023 3:40 am SaveH2O I like the slogan. Top points! Thanks Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 56Oct 20, 2023 12:49 pm Hi Everyone Quick update from site today. In my previous posts we had programmed to start external plumbing next Monday, but due to a clash on another job for Monday and the fact that my carpenters are available to start framing on Saturday, we brought it forward. So today all external drainage will be completed, then at 4pm we will install the termite barrier and start framing tomorrow. So excited to start framing! This now brings us back 6 days ahead of program after the earlier time we lost with missing waffles. My goal has always been to try and get the roof on by Christmas. I really hate leaving frames exposed longer than necessary and it has always been touch and go whether we will make it on this job. So any days we can pick up are a big win. I will post some framing photos as we progress Cheers Simeon Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 57Oct 23, 2023 8:44 am Hi Everyone Quick update from site. Saturday we stood all of the lower frames, today we are waterproofing the internal drop edge beams and then we are waiting on the delivery of the structural steel. Once that has been installed we can do the floor joists and flooring. You can see from the photos the extremely high ceiling height in the living area, 3500mm which looks stunning. Here are some photos from the weekend. Cheers Simeon Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 58Oct 23, 2023 2:06 pm Hi Simeon, Have you ever considered spray on waterproofing for concrete? This is much faster to apply than traditional stuff and protects concrete for life. e.g. https://duracore.com.au/product/densi-c ... densifier/ Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 59Oct 24, 2023 3:39 am alexp79 Hi Simeon, Have you ever considered spray on waterproofing for concrete? This is much faster to apply than traditional stuff and protects concrete for life. e.g. https://duracore.com.au/product/densi-c ... densifier/ Hi Alex Honestly I had never heard of it. Shall take a closer look regards Simeon Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep si 60Oct 24, 2023 12:33 pm Long time lurker here; I just wanted to check in and say thanks so much for posting all this detail. The costings especially are really informative in these times of run-away prices. Please keep up it up! 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