Building a boundary house - up against neighbours house

dachopper · May 06, 2024 12:49 am

Hi,

I have a block that I am planning on building on soon to both side boundaries, which both have other houses constructed that were also built boundary to boundary.

I'm thinking of using steel stud framing, and exploring ways the boundary walls can be constructed. The house is 3 stories high, and the ground floor along with bits of the second story will be flush against the neighbours house.

So far - the only method I can imagine the builder using will be constructing these parapet walls flat on the pad, then crane or manually tilt them up already waterproofed and finished one floor at a time?

I imagine this same problem exists also for wood framed houses parapet to parapet.

Anyone have any ideas how they accomplish this with a steel / wood framed structure?

Nick

aushelby · May 13, 2024 4:05 pm

Nick - not much to add, but following with interest.

We are looking at concrete panels for our build, probably off-site prefab rather than tilt - mainly for the same access/finish reasons (up against a neighbour). Have a DA and in engineering atm (also perth)

cheers

greg

dachopper · May 13, 2024 5:37 pm

aushelby

Nick - not much to add, but following with interest.

We are looking at concrete panels for our build, probably off-site prefab rather than tilt - mainly for the same access/finish reasons (up against a neighbour). Have a DA and in engineering atm (also perth)

cheers

greg

Hi Greg.

I was also going down that route, found a nice cladding to go onto the concrete, only to discover it doesn't meet boundary to boundary wall fire code, or 3 story wind.

Metal looking a lot easier as I can see a lot of it I will be able to DIY... just need to figure out the boundary wall.

aushelby · May 13, 2024 6:42 pm

Good on you for having a go

I am the opposite of DIY (so will pay a builder) - our vibe is industrial/simple so current thinking is 150mm concrete and then internally is steel stud, insulation and then gyprock. We are open to alternates but this seems best bang for buck according to Arch/Eng