Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Are these footing costs high? 4Jan 14, 2014 2:17 pm Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=66299 Slab: 16/6/14 Frame: 4/7/14 Roof: 22/7/14 Lock Up: 20/8/14 Fixing: 26/8/14 PCI: 9/10/14 Handover: 20/10/14 Re: Are these footing costs high? 8Jan 29, 2014 11:02 am As an owner builder I would have died at this. We had a fair slope on our block and had to bring in around the 1400 M3 of fill (150 truck loads plus the 30 ton excavator) which had to be compacted. The house pad was a reasonable size. The house with pergola and garage is about the 55sq mark. After this we put down 18 x 600mm piers. Most of these went down about the 3 metre mark. We had a waffle pod slab on top of all this. The total for the earthworks, supplying all the rio and waffle pods and for the concretor to lay the slab came to approx $43000. So I must agree with Timbo43 about how much some builders take advantage at certain points in a build. Settlement 1/2/12 New Shed 23/3/12 Slab poured 27/3/12 Frame complete 4/5/12 Roof complete 1/6/12 LOCKUP 29/6/12 Our new build blog http://kareenhillsownerbuild.blogspot.com/ yep sounds good make the footing bigger to to allow for the pipe in the middle 3 7324 PM me your email. I have a build excavation calculator you can use based on your plans to double check what your builder is telling you. Cheers Simeon 1 10245 I've dug some footings to embed a post anchor into. My holes are around 450mm deep which I'll put a 200mm stirrup into. The bottom of these holes seem firm enough. … 0 3321 |