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Ayperos

3 March 2009

Contract says waffle slab, got stumps!Building A New House

Mar 03, 2009 12:26 pm

Thanks for all of your comments. Our house is being built on a slope. As I mentioned above, the issue is not engineering because the builder intended for the house to be on stumps, designed it as such (for our block anyway) and the only mix up is that old specs were given to us, specs that related t...

Thanks for all of your comments. Our house is being built on a slope. As I mentioned above, the issue is not engineering...

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Ayperos

2 March 2009

Contract says waffle slab, got stumps!Building A New House

Mar 02, 2009 10:29 pm

Thanks Ed, that's a really good point that we hadn't considered!

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Ayperos

2 March 2009

Contract says waffle slab, got stumps!Building A New House

Mar 02, 2009 10:16 pm

Thanks for your replies, I have a feeling I have not explained the situation well! We now know that the builder always intended the house to be on stumps, that is how it was designed and engineered and we assume put to Council. The only issue is that the specifications, ie, the list of features incl...

Thanks for your replies, I have a feeling I have not explained the situation well! We now know that the builder always i...

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Ayperos

2 March 2009

Contract says waffle slab, got stumps!Building A New House

Mar 02, 2009 9:50 pm

We bought the house off the plan and went overseas for a while, when we came back the frame was up, half of the bricks, windows in and no slab. I don't know about any of the Council stuff, do they come and look at it at this stage or not until it's finished? Also, the information the builder gave th...

We bought the house off the plan and went overseas for a while, when we came back the frame was up, half of the bricks, ...

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Ayperos

2 March 2009

Contract says waffle slab, got stumps!Building A New House

Mar 02, 2009 9:28 pm

I'd love some opinions on this! We signed specs that said our house would be built on a waffle slab, but the builder is half way through building the house and we now find that it has been built on stumps and wooden beams. They're saying this is better because the house can be raised (the land is on...

I'd love some opinions on this! We signed specs that said our house would be built on a waffle slab, but the builder is ...

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