Browse Forums Building A New House Re: stumps or slab? 2Nov 23, 2007 9:56 am Gav & Vanessa Building In Melbourne (Sth East Suburbs) http://www.arkraider.blogspot.com/ Rawdon Hill Construction - Canterbury Heritage Re: stumps or slab? 5Nov 23, 2007 2:25 pm Peter Clarkson - AusDesign Australia www.ausdesign.com.au This information is intended to provide general information only. It does not purport to be a comprehensive advice. Re: stumps or slab? 6Nov 23, 2007 2:28 pm Cabinfever I was talking to an old Queensland builder just today about this very subject. He said stumps were far superior, but the fashion was now slabs as they were much cheaper. He also said that when Brisbane builders first started using slabs they'd just nailgun into the slab. He used to put huge bolts into the slab since he used to build (out of habit) to cyclone specifications from his work in north Qld. Isnt it standard practice to bolt the bottom plates to the slab now? Dont tell me some builders still nail gun it? Re: stumps or slab? 7Nov 23, 2007 2:35 pm The min. fixing requirement is 1/75mm masonry nail at 1200 c/c.
Depends on wind load catagory & wall bracing units.[/quote] Peter Clarkson - AusDesign Australia www.ausdesign.com.au This information is intended to provide general information only. It does not purport to be a comprehensive advice. Re: stumps or slab? 8Nov 23, 2007 6:17 pm louie Cabinfever I was talking to an old Queensland builder just today about this very subject. He said stumps were far superior, but the fashion was now slabs as they were much cheaper. He also said that when Brisbane builders first started using slabs they'd just nailgun into the slab. He used to put huge bolts into the slab since he used to build (out of habit) to cyclone specifications from his work in north Qld. Isnt it standard practice to bolt the bottom plates to the slab now? Dont tell me some builders still nail gun it? It is now. But when slab construction began in Brisbane it certainly wasn't ! So when the Greenhouse Effect starts testing Brisbane houses we'll soon be able to tell Re: stumps or slab? 9Nov 24, 2007 6:25 pm I would never build on a slab. I love being able to get under my house to 'see' everything. Its so easy to run cabling or move/fix things.
Floorboards in a slab house can still squeak too 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 16105 |