Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: Foundation Concrete Exposed 6Mar 13, 2015 8:37 am Building with Jandson Homes - Eclipse 18. http://adgnetworks.blogspot.com/ Re: Foundation Concrete Exposed 7Mar 13, 2015 9:09 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Foundation Concrete Exposed 11Mar 14, 2015 9:31 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Foundation Concrete Exposed 12Mar 15, 2015 8:29 am If the photo is anything to go by, it looks like your land is slopping towards your neighbour, is that correct? 1. Surely your neighbour will not fill up their land, why would they? if you decided to fill up this part of land, it's your responsibility for the retaining wall. And unless it is a significant slop I wouldn't even want a retaining wall at all, Just grade the soil away from your house. 2. According to your engineer, the footing in this side is 1200mm and there is about 400-500mm exposed, that means about 700mm is under the soil. While I won't call it the root barrier, it is still a fair bit of footing under ground, I would be very happy to have that. Also depends on the species of the trees your neighbour have on the boundary (are they Lilli-pillies, Citrous?), they may not have significant impact on the foundation, I would be more worried about the big trees in the background of the photo. 3. Exposed concrete footing is not an issue, as long as the edge beam is under ground. In fact it is ideal to have the concrete edge exposed according to Building-Expert and some other publications I read somewhere else. One of the advantage is making it harder for termites to invade your house, as termites need to build a mud tunnel on the exposed concrete, and you can easily spot it. I've watched a fair bit of reno shows from USA and UK, most of the house have exposed concrete footing to almost a foot high and the cladding (or siding as Americans call it) never touch the ground, I think it makes a lot of sense. Built: Modified H3nl3y S0h0 Q1 in Melbourne :- Never again Last year I had a gas leak at my house. 3 days later, I have about 1 sqm of my exposed aggregate paving broken up. I am not sure how to go about getting it repaired… 0 10403 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi all, My neighbour has built his 15m long garage on our boundary. It was agreed as part of the planning permit that the wall must be in exposed recycled brick. For some… 0 10892 After some ideas on making our patio kid friendly . Currently we have exposed aggregate. The patio faces west and is always in sun even though it has a shade directly… 0 3525 |