Browse Forums Building A New House Re: retaining wall or strip footing? 3Dec 03, 2008 4:24 pm The other issue here is the style of house you end up with. Our first house followed the contours of the land and was on 5 levels as a consequence. A cut and fill process woud've meant a massive retaining wall at the back.
We much preferred to have a house that "hugged" the ground and we're convinced it allowed us to landscape the block much more effectively later. Yes, we needed some terracing, steps and retaining walls, but we think that worked a lot better than building the house in a huge scar on the land. Just suggesting that you consider the relative merits of the two end results as well as the cost. But I think the strip footing approach wins on both counts. BTW, we're now building on one level on a flat site, but we are 30 years older. All the stairs in the previous place did help us stay fit, though. Cheers zeke there is a standard besser block wall pdf somewhere online with footing sizes, also have a look at dincel. 1 2923 Versaloc is a mortarless besser block system that still needs a properly engineered footing. If you just do a 400x200 footing it will fail in time. At 17m long you need it… 1 18038 yep sounds good make the footing bigger to to allow for the pipe in the middle 3 7325 |