Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building on stumps. 4May 20, 2008 11:51 am Luke, yep that was the quote. As I said all the builders we spoke to were around this magical figure - hence we are hoping like crazy that the drop edge slab will be sufficient. I suppose you also have to keep in mind that our home is 490sqm - and single storey - so it is a very large space.
Our council has a chicken or egg strategy - they refuse to tell us what level we need to build the house up to to get DA however no builder will do a plan until Council tells them what level to do it at. So at this stage we have had one AHD completed, having fill trucked in at present ready to be smoothed then will be getting a second AHD completed to get drawings finalised for Council. If you're in a flood zone, not only are you dealing with the importation of fill and laying it down in 150 lifts to achieve compaction, you're going to have to consider… 4 5537 Are they stumps or screw piles ? How much fill is there, is the site a class "P" ? A "H2" site is not supposed to have stumps it is supposed to have grid beams according… 1 6958 |