Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Site cost - boreholes 5Sep 17, 2020 12:17 am alexp79 I think it is okay, you would most probably require piers to around 1200-1500 due to uncontrolled fill. How did he explain the difference? I do have a Meter fall on my land apparently. But they didn't see that the developer already has placed a retaining wall.. so hopefully that can lower the cost quite a bit.one of the builders actually quoted be just 16k and was able to fix it. I mentioned this to them. So hopefully they can look at the engineering again and lower the cost.. We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37139 Thanks for the insight! My plot is a new development so hopefully I won't have too much problem during build as everyone should be roughly building together. I also… 2 3372 Approvals are covered in the cost we are paying to the pool company. The only thing stated in our home build contract for the additional cost is engineering support. … 3 7119 |