Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Nov 10, 2008 10:26 am Building Upside down house in Wantirna VIC Current Stage: Procrastination... it's just all too hard.... Blog: http://thereluctantbuilder.blogspot.com/ Re: Stumps V Slab for unstable soils 4Nov 10, 2008 12:17 pm Building Upside down house in Wantirna VIC Current Stage: Procrastination... it's just all too hard.... Blog: http://thereluctantbuilder.blogspot.com/ Re: Stumps V Slab for unstable soils 6Nov 10, 2008 12:31 pm Building Upside down house in Wantirna VIC Current Stage: Procrastination... it's just all too hard.... Blog: http://thereluctantbuilder.blogspot.com/ Re: Stumps V Slab for unstable soils 9Nov 10, 2008 7:50 pm Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves. - Dale Carnegie Re: Stumps V Slab for unstable soils 10Nov 10, 2008 9:10 pm James Bond Have you considered stumps in a material other than wood? eg concrete or steel. . Houses aren't generally built on wooden stumps - piers are brick or as you mentioned adjustable steel piers. If you're in a flood zone, not only are you dealing with the importation of fill and laying it down in 150 lifts to achieve compaction, you're going to have to consider… 4 5528 Are they stumps or screw piles ? How much fill is there, is the site a class "P" ? A "H2" site is not supposed to have stumps it is supposed to have grid beams according… 1 6933 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16106 |