Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 08, 2013 9:26 pm Hi all Not sure if this is the thread to post this, if you think a different thread would be better please let me know so I can repost. We are at CDC stage with our building company and have been advise that our proposed new home falls with the exclusion zone for a sewer line on an adjacent property. We have to pay the water board to do a peg out so our house can proceed, hopefully???? See picture below: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The dotted line along blocks 2003 & 2002 is the sewer line and the blue line is the exclusion zone. What I want to know is the following? - doesn't this happen in all estates for certain blocks that run next to sewer lines? - what are the possible additional costs? Will it impact the site costs for our build? Change in house foundations? - has anyone else had this with there block, if so what happened in your experience? Any information experience you can provide would be great? Thanks Re: Building near sewer lines - Advice\Experience wanted 2Oct 08, 2013 11:20 pm Matt thanks for your information. I was afraid it would be reason for another variation cost. We are in NSW, council area Blacktown. Re: Building near sewer lines - Advice\Experience wanted 3Oct 09, 2013 1:51 am I am in Perth and in order to build within 1200mm of the sewer line i need to use special footings that will cost a little more. I guess nothing permanent can go over that line either. Your building company should know how to handle it.... Re: Building near sewer lines - Advice\Experience wanted 4Oct 09, 2013 8:54 am Our garage is going OVER a sewer line. We bought the block knowing that there was an easement in the back yard (it would have been under the back fence when the original subdivision was done in the 50's but the original owners bought some back-yard from their rear neighbours), and thought we wouldn't be able to build over it ... it was a pleasant surprise to find out we can. So in about 2 week's time, after the demolition folk are finished, we're getting the sewer line encased in concrete & new pipes put in. There's something like 22 lineal metres involved (16m wide block & there's a t-piece involved), and the cost is I think around $8.5k (which IMHO is nothing compared to what everything else costs WRT a new house). We've also paid maybe an extra $3k or so in piering, both at the back of the alfresco (which is near the pipe) and underneath the garage which straddles it. Re: Building near sewer lines - Advice\Experience wanted 5Oct 09, 2013 8:00 pm Thanks Forg & AussieMark, the building company are dealing with it ok, it is more for metro get an idea of what cost I am going to have to deal with. The other side to it was I was trying to get the weatherboard to one peg out survey instead of two as we will need another peg out done for our pool which will fall under a different exclusion zone of our own sewer lines at the back of our block. Turns out it is too hard to combine peg outs as water board can organise that. If they do it will make the applications more complicated and then the applications will end up impact each other and maybe delaying each other. Another joy of building. Evening, Had my 3 month maintance done on my new place. Most things are fixed to ok standards, but im not sure about the visible joins in my plaster wall. There was 2… 0 4605 2 4612 I think you are getting different numbers because they all just based them on "other jobs" even though each job is unique. Often, with builders, unless you're speaking to… 3 2133 |