Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Jun 08, 2012 10:27 pm Hi, This a clad granny flat I'm building now. One side of the building, where the sliding door is located, is about 0.8m under the natural land as shown in this picture. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ . I'm going to put two steps in front of the sliding door. However, I'm not sure what I can do with the remaining 'hole'. I want to cover it up for safety reasons. I thought of few ways to handle this.. 1. Sloping the land. It doesn't work well because the slope will be too steep. 2. Place some timber sleepers - It might invite termites. 3. Placing solid concrete long flower pots against the wall and fill the rest with dirt - I'm not sure how practicals it is. Any ideas please? Regards, devank 1 19722 can’t tell from the photo, a tie down rod will be 12mm, is it a steel beam? he should be able to work it out 1 4461 Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 17382 |