Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Second soil test after demolition 2Jun 14, 2010 10:00 am Hi Yellow, We had several engineering changes after our second soil test (in our favour), but they also added in root barrier across the whole front of our slab which cost around $2K. In the end it balanced out that we only paid an extra $100 for site costs in the PCV. We didn't have to pay for this PCV as Henley had to include it to re-engineer the slab, so we took advantage of it and added in several other things including extra powerpoints and evap cooling. So in the end, the PCV cost us about $6K. Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Second soil test after demolition 5Jun 14, 2010 10:58 am [quote="Lex"]Hmmm ... are you saying that a second soil test should be done after demolition?? /quote] It was done after our demo with Henley. The soil is disturbed and there was a house in the way, so to get an idea of what was 'under' the old house and where the new slab was going they did another. There may have been rock etc that they could not possibly know about with the other house in the way. Our soil was quite sandy but with deposits of clay in some sections, and we also had 6 mature trees taken out, so the soil was stirred up a lot! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Second soil test after demolition 7Jun 14, 2010 5:02 pm We only had one soil test but the block was resurveyed to check the original bench and FFL was still OK. http://ourlamontbuild-allydandmei.blogspot.com/ Initial signing and deposit done Soil test done Contract signed Demolition of old house done All finance approved Building approval from council Site prep done Trenching done Re: Second soil test after demolition 8Jun 14, 2010 5:39 pm Yeah, I think that's about all we had too - as above. Never heard that they also do a real second soil test, but I can definitely see that it's a good idea. My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Second soil test after demolition 9Jun 14, 2010 9:17 pm Hi Yellow, we are hanging out for the completion of the demo ~ they have started taking our old house down last week ~ as then we will have a second soil test completed. Site costs can then be finalised. Currently have allowance for a P class slab, so we will see what happens after the second soil test. We are taking down 9 big mature trees, so there will be a fair amount of movement in the soil. We are hoping the site can't get much worse than P class!! It's all about the trees for us... hoping they won't find a septic tank buried under there anywhere! Instead of a post-contract variation, we are waiting on the information prior to finalising the contract ~ everything else is pretty much done + waiting on this. Our builder prefers for the second soil test to be done *prior* to the contract being finalised, so that the contract reflects to the fullest extent the expectation of what site costs are required for the block. Don't know if that helps ~ good luck + keep us posted. ~ cheers, J _______________________________________________________________ We're a knockdown | rebuild ~ Melb SE burbs Building modified version of the Fairhaven Glenaire Homeone thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28429 _______________________________________________________________ Re: Second soil test after demolition 11Jun 15, 2010 9:00 am We demolished and had our soil test done before the demolition. I don't think that they did a second soil test, however we are on stumps. They have done the strip footings however we are still waiting for the stumps to go in. As far as I am aware they may only need to adjust the stump footing size slightly based on what they encounter as they excavate for the individual footings. View our blog at: http://room4acubby.blogspot.com/ Re: Second soil test after demolition 12Jun 15, 2010 1:22 pm vanilla tree Hi Yellow, we are hanging out for the completion of the demo ~ they have started taking our old house down last week ~ as then we will have a second soil test completed. Site costs can then be finalised. Currently have allowance for a P class slab, so we will see what happens after the second soil test. We are taking down 9 big mature trees, so there will be a fair amount of movement in the soil. We are hoping the site can't get much worse than P class!! It's all about the trees for us... hoping they won't find a septic tank buried under there anywhere! Instead of a post-contract variation, we are waiting on the information prior to finalising the contract ~ everything else is pretty much done + waiting on this. Our builder prefers for the second soil test to be done *prior* to the contract being finalised, so that the contract reflects to the fullest extent the expectation of what site costs are required for the block. Don't know if that helps ~ good luck + keep us posted. ~ cheers, J We had singed the contract after the first soil test. We are also in the middle of demolition. We have two trees and our soild was rated P. Will see what happens on the second soil test. We are not using stumps. We do have a fall from front to back. First site Cost $16k We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37085 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 30235 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12320 |