Browse Forums Building A New House Re: excess soil -- help 2Nov 16, 2009 9:28 pm Hi Easter, Just had a look at your blog - going great. Site costs in Adelaide are terrible though we are about to build in Eastern suburbs site costs 27k...... excluding retaining walls. There are a few sites online where you can post your fill and get people to remove if they want it eg http://www.fillwanted.com.au/ or look in local eastern courier paper/messenger and you can find people to cart it away. Good luck Re: excess soil -- help 3Nov 16, 2009 10:17 pm Hi, Bluesteel, Thanks a lot for your information. There is zero post in SA poor Adelaide. I can't wait now. The pile is on my neighbuor's site and they are about to start the site work. I need a retaining wall as well. I am think put a retaining wall under the existing fence without redo it. I am not sure if it is practical. Re: excess soil -- help 4Nov 16, 2009 10:27 pm heya... If you check out the homesteadsa thread...theres some talk on it about soil removal.... I had 1 pile of about 50 - 55 tonne removed by a guy a mate put me onto for $600.... and a second pile around the same ( 50t ) for another $600..... He took it somewhere out to virginia where they allowed hime to dump it for free cause it was clean...so if your in suburbs closer to town he may charge more.... It was a fair price i thought... worked out to about $12 tonne which what most were charging without dump costs.... Pm me if you want his number....you can mention you got it from me when/if you negotiate price... Good luck... Re: excess soil -- help 8Nov 18, 2009 3:31 pm Can you spread the excess soil over the block, that's what my dad and I did. PM me your email. I have a build excavation calculator you can use based on your plans to double check what your builder is telling you. Cheers Simeon 1 10205 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 29929 I am not sure whether Perth has its own way of doing things in regards to this. Most of Perth has class A (sandy soil), except for some areas near rivers or hills. 2 12991 |