Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Retaining Wall 3May 12, 2021 9:42 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Retaining Wall 6May 12, 2021 10:22 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Retaining Wall 7May 12, 2021 10:02 pm voievoda strannik Have you purchased the land, or house & land package? Don't listen to what people tell you (especially builder/RE salespeople), read all the clauses in the contract to see if that's true or not. Same goes for what's included in the contract. It's hard to say whether retaining wall is needed or not without the drawings, but if they say 'by owner usually it means they'll build the house and leave it up to you to decide what to do about it. Hi, It is a house and land package. I just added to my OP that without the retaining walls we wont be able to get the occupation certificate which means we wont be able to move in once it's built. I really think in that case it should be part of the building . Seems like a pretty big thing to miss. I'll see if I can upload the drawings. Thank you for your reply. Ok so the way I understand house & land packages, it's usually a builder buying land from developer, and onselling it along with the house you want to build. So they are right, you can't go with a different builder. Now as far as retaining walls go, I see there are 3 walls there. 2 on the lot side boundaries, and one half way to the back. I can't see what the height difference is there, but if it's not too much, you can just slope the back one instead of doing the retaining wall. The side ones you may be able to split costs with the owners of neighboring lots. I don't know which state you're in, but in QLD for example the side boundary retaining walls are responsibility of the person that has to modify their lot. So if you're building on a street that goes down the hill, you'd be responsible for one side, but not the other. Unless you have to do both cut and fill. Which normally isn't something you have to to do unless you're building to the boundary. We had similar situation with our house, where the lot had about half a meter drop. So we ended up having neighbor on the lower side paying for the retaining wall, cause they cut their lot, and we got the builder to slope the other side. But eventually I ended up building retaining wall myself so we can have small garden there. Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5141 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16105 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6889 |