Browse Forums Paving & Concreting Re: ADVICE NEEDED!! Bad concrete levelling, weep hole issues 5May 09, 2015 9:38 am buildup the plumbing is indeed the overflow relief gully, and the advice given by new tradies coming in for quotes is not to extend this pipe, but concrete around it with an inward slope, and install a drain over it. If you do that, it will allow stormwater to enter the overflow relief gully and the regulations state quite clearly that the riser must be finished at a level that does not permit ponding or the ingress of stormwater and again there must be no ingress of surface water to any overflow relief gully. This link will take you to the VBA Technical solution sheet regarding Drainage Overflow Relief. It includes a diagram showing the gully (ORG) in relation to ground level. When paving you can reduce the 75mm separation to 50mm. http://www.vba.vic.gov.au/__data/assets ... Relief.pdf We had to remove about 30 square metres of 80mm thick concrete and the quotes we got were around the $1500 to $1600 mark. It also depends if there is room to get a machine in to cart it out or if they have to barrow it out. If there is anybody handy in the family, you can hire a concrete saw and cut it yourself. It just takes time and effort. I'm afraid there are no easy solutions around this. My experience is that concreters rarely know the building regulations and even plumbers will tell you all sorts of things. At the end of the day, unless you know what to ask for and make sure it gets done that way, nobody will give a toss. Hi guys, I want to do some floor levelling before laying the planks and am considering doing it with self-levelling or yellow tongue PB board. I am wondering which one… 0 3933 it depends on the natural ground level, if they excavated their boundary wall needed to be built as a retaining wall. If you filled, which sounds like the case then you… 1 5058 I know foam has been around since the 90's and CSR started manufacturing Hebel in 1989, so it's definitely possible 5 4123 |