Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Apr 30, 2011 7:47 pm Can someone assist me with the following: We have requested that the footings on one wall of our new house be one metre deep. This is to allow for a below ground fibreglass pool to be put in at a later date. Apparantly this is required due to the pool being so close to the house. The wall requiring the extra footing is 7metres long and of course the footing is to be one metre deep. We have been quoted by the builder between $3000 and $6000. This seems a bit expensive to me. Can anyone tell me if this is about right. Thanks Ian Re: Help with cost of variations. 2Apr 30, 2011 8:50 pm Hi Ian I can't really comment on the cost of footings but I do know that concrete is expensive we recently put down a 10cm x 11m x 5m slab for our water tanks and that cost almost $4000. I guess a footing would be thicker and then you would have additional excavator cost. For our house when our footings go in one will need to be piered due to the house position on a hill and we have been told that it will cost more but not yet exactly how much, hopefully not $6000. 12th of Never land 20/3/07 ~~ Contract 17/11/10 ~~ Prestart 9/3/11 ~~ Footings 29/4/11 Re: Help with cost of variations. 3May 01, 2011 7:29 am That doesn't sound expensive at all.... we paid $12,000 for a slab upgrade and piering along one edge and that was the 2007 price. Re: Help with cost of variations. 4May 01, 2011 8:47 am We paid for extra piering because we are also having our pool close to the house and it only cost us $900 to get the piering in 2 places. Re: Help with cost of variations. 5May 01, 2011 8:09 pm Quote: We have requested that the footings on one wall of our new house be one metre deep. This is to allow for a below ground fibreglass pool to be put in at a later date. Apparantly this is required due to the pool being so close to the house. Who said you need to increase the footings? You?, The Pool People from a pool you haven't built yet?. There is no way a house footing needs to increased to accommodate a pool. An extra 500mm footing will do nothing to stop your house falling into the pool if you build it too close. Build the house slab as it was designed. Save the $6K and spend it on a better pool (designed by an engineer to fit the site), or spend it on beer.... Paul Re: Help with cost of variations. 6May 04, 2011 6:54 pm BuilderPaul Who said you need to increase the footings? You?, The Pool People from a pool you haven't built yet?. There is no way a house footing needs to increased to accommodate a pool. An extra 500mm footing will do nothing to stop your house falling into the pool if you build it too close. Build the house slab as it was designed. Save the $6K and spend it on a better pool (designed by an engineer to fit the site), or spend it on beer.... Paul The council will require piering or other reinforcement of foundations if the pool is to be built against the house or within a short distance. Same deal as if the house is close to a sewer line or other assets in an easement. Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 29717 It seems very clear to me that your contract states that a security account does NOT need to be established so the answer to the builder is NO. If in doubt find a contract… 1 8510 The fastest thing a builder will do is bank your cheque, those systems work perfectly with lightning speed, everything else is slow burn. Just the way it is. 1 8708 |