Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anything I'm missing?? 4May 01, 2019 4:12 pm Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: Anything I'm missing?? 5May 01, 2019 4:16 pm SejaeD EdB84 Yeah if it were sloping upwards from the road I could just put the house on stilts and have the garage below... have you checked the flood map with council? Yep! All good, very slight risk on the lowest part of the lot. Re: Anything I'm missing?? 6May 01, 2019 4:22 pm EdB84 SejaeD EdB84 Yeah if it were sloping upwards from the road I could just put the house on stilts and have the garage below... have you checked the flood map with council? Yep! All good, very slight risk on the lowest part of the lot. awesome, just double check your council setbacks etc Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: Anything I'm missing?? 7May 01, 2019 4:24 pm SejaeD EdB84 SejaeD have you checked the flood map with council? Yep! All good, very slight risk on the lowest part of the lot. awesome, just double check your council setbacks etc Ah thank you! I couldn't figure out what they call it here. I'm used to it being called building boundary lines. Re: Anything I'm missing?? 9May 02, 2019 9:35 pm You probably will need piers due to the trees being close to the building and also check the depth of the easements as the angle of repose may also need you to deepen the footings.This should all come out in the engineering design. To my understanding early saw cuts are to control shrinkage cracks, so doing them now would be pointless. Control joints may reduce ugly cracking during periods of soil… 3 9826 Hey guys building a new place through a volume builder and just wondering if i should complain to the site supervisor as we just had plasterboard installed. Looks like… 0 11254 Yes, the builder is required to finish the wall. What else have you missed? 1 3358 |