Concrete Piers

With the cut and fill done on our site the "fill" side of the house will have about 10 concrete piers supporting the slab. Question is, are the piers always put in seperately (before) from the slab being poured? Or they sometimes done at the same time as the slab? On the drawings they are called "internal piers" so we thought maybe they are done as part of the slab...TA!!

I don't know of any reason either way except for convenience for the concretors managing the pour.

thanks...we had noticed other people have had piers done several days before slab....but ours aren't done yet with slab hopefully going down today, so wondered if they would do at the same time! (hoping they havent forgotton them!!)

You’ll find out when your home starts to sink into the bog.

Have you had your piping done?

The piers are usually done before piping, as they can easily damage the pipes. Perhaps that won't be an issue in your case as you only have piers under a small part of the slab.

I THINK they are done before the slab goes down. But don't hold me on that as we have piers, too, and we completely missed seeing them. So, maybe they're not even there?! How silly - I'm laughing at my own jokes!

Anyway, we saw our block on a Saturday and excavation started a couple of days before that. We then saw pipes the following Wednesday with the slab poured by week's end. So, I'm guessing the piers were either done before or after the pipes. But definitely before the slab. Hope that helps!

ta everyone.

We had the excavation done friday before last and pipes/drains done the monday after...but not much has happened since! They did tell us slab expected to be done yesterday but not there!!! The steel bars and mesh and a big pile of little stones etc is all delivered and waiting....probably waiting for a fine day!! maybe today.....

Hi Vanderlay,

Do you have any photos to share with us if you don't mind?
We are going to have some piers as well in our construction site. We are still waiting for excavation to start, would really like to understand a bit more about the initial processes after excavation done.

Cheers
Allan
http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/
Current stage: old house demolished, contract signed, fence ready, waiting for excavation to start...

Still dont have our piers done yet...will get a pic of them if we can before they do the slab! Only thing that had happened this week is electricity and box has been connected Damm weather!

Have you looked at Amber's blog, she had some pics of the piers before her slab was done.

Thanks Vanderlay, I just checked the blog list:

https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=1522

But couldn't work out which one belongs to Amber, do you have any idea which one is it?

Cheers
Allan
http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/
Current stage: old house demolished, contract signed, fence ready, waiting for excavation to start...

Found it, it's "http://ourdreamhouse.blogspot.com/"
Please ignore my previous request.

Cheers
Allan
http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/
Current stage: old house demolished, contract signed, fence ready, waiting for excavation to start...

whoops...should have put the link there!