Browse Forums Paving & Concreting 1 Aug 25, 2009 5:37 pm Hi, As my build is nearing to an end I am looking at concreting options and a friend of mine suggested that I ask the builder that if i have concrete poured which meets the slab will my warranty be compromised. Has anyone heard of this?? I was hoping to concrete in exposed agg. where the future entertaining area is going but am not too sure now. Thanks Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 2Aug 26, 2009 3:01 pm Recently did this but unfortunately waited until my house was completed. What i should have done is to use the builders concreting team. My advice is to get any pergola, living area etc drawn into your plans and get any concreting done in the building stage. Not as an "add on" as i did. There should be no problems concreting up to an existing slab but a simple conversation with the site boss will confirm that. Daryl Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 3Aug 28, 2009 7:45 pm Thanks for your reply Daryl. At the time my budget would not allow for any extra concreting by the builder. I will be sure to ask the ss Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 4Aug 28, 2009 9:07 pm Majority of people get a driveway done which goes up to the slab and I've never heard of that voiding a warranty so I don't think it happens 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 5Aug 28, 2009 9:55 pm It would be news to me Onc_artisan Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 6Aug 28, 2009 11:35 pm Tillie I am looking at concreting options and a friend of mine suggested that I ask the builder that if i have concrete poured which meets the slab will my warranty be compromised. Has anyone heard of this?? I was hoping to concrete in exposed agg. where the future entertaining area is going but am not too sure now. I'm not sure I understand the question, but as long as the entertaining area concrete is below the level of the damp proof course, drainage holes and certain types of termite proofing then I'm not sure what the problem would be? What did the builder say? Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 7Aug 29, 2009 6:42 am Our builder told us any concreting to the house paths ect would just need to make sure it ties in so to speak with the footings like the driveway and porch footing have been placed for our place as we couldnt get the porch concrete at time of pour due to it needing to be exposed ag http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o194/millymonster/P8260177.jpg Like this i guess we want some more paths after build which we told the builder but i dont know how we tie it to the slab footings after without these. its all to technical for me fall this way slope that way dont do this do this follow the engineers report blah blah i get lost and leave it all to the other half Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 8Aug 29, 2009 8:52 am Thanks for all the replies they are appreciated. Sent the email off but unfortunately the CSO is on annual leave I am sure that there should not be a problem from the builders warranty point of view is as one of the replies above state that it is below any weep holes and the termite protection etc... Now that I am typing this I did infact ask my 2nd SS and he stated the above also So no problems it is just that there will be approx $10000 worth of concrete and didn't want to stuff it up in any way Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 9Sep 12, 2009 11:29 pm Tillie Hi, As my build is nearing to an end I am looking at concreting options and a friend of mine suggested that I ask the builder that if i have concrete poured which meets the slab will my warranty be compromised. Has anyone heard of this?? I was hoping to concrete in exposed agg. where the future entertaining area is going but am not too sure now. Thanks Haven't heard of this voiding warranty thing? keep it below DPC and weep holes, you'd just run a line of ableflex (or similar) around the house slab separating them..I'm assuming this new Exp. agg. is a typical pavement slab non structural make sure when pouring the house has plastic taped up a good 1m or more to prevent concrete splattering up into windows/walls etc..typical pavement slabs would be 90-100mm thick, 20mPa with a SL72 mesh up to 20m in length/SL82 for 20m+ check AS2870 but I think thats it.. Re: Concreting up to the slab of a home 10Sep 18, 2009 11:18 am Thanks keepitgully have got it all sorted now It will be neat but you won't have much freeboard. At least they are not weep holes. Are you in a high intensity rainfall region? The regulatory slope is only required… 3 8278 We've had decent weather for last 7 weeks and now the drvieway has been cut out we had an evening of 50mm of rain including all the water from half the street, ground is… 0 4478 Just get as close as you can without hitting the posts. Once you are close to the edge of the path the chance of cracking is minimised. 7 9180 |