Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Please recommand a retaining wall builder in Adelaide 2Feb 01, 2013 12:58 pm Which area in Adelaide are you (North, South, East or West)? I might know a couple of contacts you could try in the Northern suburbs, but I don't know if they would be interested driving across town if you are down South somewhere. Are the engineers doing the whole council approval for you for that price? It seems very expensive. We need an engineer's report for some retaining walls we want to do and I was quoted $200 + GST. That is only for the report though (I'm doing the rest of the paperwork myself) and I know the engineer so it may be a mates rate price I'm getting but ten times more seems a rip off? Maybe get a couple more quotes from other places. Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=52680 SiteStart 19/11/11 Slab 10/12/11 Frame 17/02/12 Roof 3/05/12 LockUp 22/06/12 Handover 31/08/12 Re: Please recommand a retaining wall builder in Adelaide 3Feb 01, 2013 1:14 pm Thalian72 Which area in Adelaide are you (North, South, East or West)? I might know a couple of contacts you could try in the Northern suburbs, but I don't know if they would be interested driving across town if you are down South somewhere. Are the engineers doing the whole council approval for you for that price? It seems very expensive. We need an engineer's report for some retaining walls we want to do and I was quoted $200 + GST. That is only for the report though (I'm doing the rest of the paperwork myself) and I know the engineer so it may be a mates rate price I'm getting but ten times more seems a rip off? Maybe get a couple more quotes from other places. Thanks very much for your reply. @Thalian72 I am in northern suburb, closed to mason lake. I am more than happy to get your recommendation of wall builders. Yes, the $2000 is for the whole council approval job. Can we do the rest paperwork by ourselves, except engineer's report? Is soil report needed? I'd like to do the same way if I could DIY by myself. Can you recommend me the engineer too? Thank you for the info. A development application for a retaining wall is only required to be submitted to Council for assessment where the height of the retaining wall is one metre or greater. The documents to be provided to Council for approval should include: a detailed site plan indicating the location of the wall elevations showing materials, finishes and height of the wall construction details of how the wall will be constructed engineer's calculations for the footings and wall which documents can we parpare by ourselves? Re: Please recommand a retaining wall builder in Adelaide 4Feb 01, 2013 2:44 pm OK, if the $2000 is for the whole application then that's probably not so bad after all. But you should be able to do the paperwork yourself. It will just require some running around and organizing stuff, which is clearly what you would pay the extra money to your engineer for. I contacted council and got a list with all the documents that are required from them. The required forms can be downloaded from the council website. You should be able to do the site plan, the elevations plan and the general application forms yourself. I got some help with the plans from the guy who will be building the wall for us. I'll get the details of my contacts for you tonight when I'm at home and have all the info handy. Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=52680 SiteStart 19/11/11 Slab 10/12/11 Frame 17/02/12 Roof 3/05/12 LockUp 22/06/12 Handover 31/08/12 Re: Please recommand a retaining wall builder in Adelaide 5Feb 01, 2013 7:44 pm PM sent. Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=52680 SiteStart 19/11/11 Slab 10/12/11 Frame 17/02/12 Roof 3/05/12 LockUp 22/06/12 Handover 31/08/12 Thank you again Simeon.. I will call my certifier for that. Have a good day 4 5179 Building a new home, and looking for a garage builder (home builder not contracted to do this). Someone to build steel garage (double), colorbond, including supply and… 0 3252 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16122 |