Weve been talking about where we want to build and it looks like its too wet, so we either pick somewhere else on the farm to build or ditch our plans and build in town somewhere.
The paddock we picked was close to power and telephone, as well as the road. But weve been looking at old pics we have and it looks as if it gets way to wet to put a house down. Weve received the quote for the house with an 's' class soil, but thats for $30k. So I cant imagine what it would be for anything more. Has anyone had any experience building on a really wet piece of land? How is the house now? Has there been much movement?
TIA
Hi
I'm currently building on land that is all clay - and it gets very wet....
We ended up with something like 50 bored piers (4 metre holes in the ground filled with concrete) so the house won't move at all.
Had to add various drains around the site\house before building started. Have had to bring in lots of crushed rock otherwise cars\trucks get bogged.
Oh really?
I spoke to the builder and he seems to think its doable. So I guess we wait.
Do you mind me asking how much you paid for footings? Have you got a thread I can look at?