Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Land boundary missing 4May 03, 2013 8:29 pm Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Re: Land boundary missing 8May 03, 2013 8:42 pm Homefinder Thanks Is it just for measuring ?? It's for making sure they establish the boundaries and set out the site properly. To the centimetre. They need to know where the boundaries are to establish setbacks. It also ensures they cut and fill the right area, and put up their temporary fencing in the right spot. If the builder isn't careful about the property boundaries bad things can happen. The markers may be missing, but the boundary pegs may well still be there in the soil. It's an offence to remove them. If you have a fair idea where the actual property boundaries are, you could go digging to see if the pegs have just been covered over by soil. Re: Land boundary missing 9May 03, 2013 11:44 pm I found my pegs quite easily when I measured them. This link (http://www.anewhouse.com.au/?p=393) explains how to read title plans so you can get the dimensions. This shows the difference between the actual boundary pegs and the initial marker pegs you probably saw when you first visited the block http://www.anewhouse.com.au/?p=386 The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Land boundary missing 11May 04, 2013 10:29 am I just rang a land surveyor. He said that if the measurements are out by 100mm or so not to worry too much. Only worry if you suspect the house next to you is actually on your land, then its called an unintentional encrochment and you would be entitled to compensation,or if you think the measurements are out by half a meter or more..... He also charges $125 per hour and in a housing estate he said on average it would take him 1-3 hours. Re: Land boundary missing 12May 04, 2013 12:18 pm zub13 Only worry if you suspect the house next to you is actually on your land, then its called an unintentional encrochment and you would be entitled to compensation It's a bit more complex than that. For example, our neighbours have cut and filled 1m into our land because they mistook our property boundaries when doing excavation. There's no danger of actual building encroachment (although they did go close), but it's complicated things significantly. They are now struggling to find an acceptable way to sort it all out, without massively disrupting our builder's plans and their own. When they did the excavation, they factored on an extra 1m of space to batter off the fill. Now it looks like they are going to actually need retaining walls that they didn't plan on, for both the cut and the fill. Had they actually known where the boundaries were at an earlier stage, they would have done the cut and fill differently, and everything would have been fine. It's too late to fix that now the slab has been poured. There's now a massive dispute between me and the neighbouring builder. They say the retaining walls have to wait until after handover, because they weren't part of their tender with the neighbour. I say they should happen right now, because I'd like to move into my house in a month or two without having a 1m strip of land down the side of my block as their construction zone. Our builder has some materials (portaloo, fencing, a pallet of leftover bricks) in the way of where they would need to work to fix it all anyway, so now it's just dragging on and on, with everyone blaming everyone else. In this case, there was no mistaking where the pegs were, it was just a case of workers not paying attention, and then supervisors not picking it up. Had they actually checked the pegs before they started, it would have been all fine. Knowing where those pegs are is vital, and will save serious headaches later. To my understanding early saw cuts are to control shrinkage cracks, so doing them now would be pointless. Control joints may reduce ugly cracking during periods of soil… 3 9863 Hey guys building a new place through a volume builder and just wondering if i should complain to the site supervisor as we just had plasterboard installed. Looks like… 0 11277 Yes, the builder is required to finish the wall. What else have you missed? 1 3367 |