Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Footings too short? Should we be worried? 4Aug 17, 2009 9:53 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Footings too short? Should we be worried? 14Aug 18, 2009 7:20 pm All sorted. Spoke to the engineer and the footings guy. The footings guy will dig out around and under the top slab bolt up some reinforcement rods into the existing slab and fill up with concrete. The engineer will come to check before he pours the concrete. YAY! It will be neat but you won't have much freeboard. At least they are not weep holes. Are you in a high intensity rainfall region? The regulatory slope is only required… 3 8330 Firstly, if your house is still under builder's warranty (10 years in Victoria) you should have no need to crawl into roof space but let the builder handle it, unless you… 3 5662 |