Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building in Taylors Hill Vic ? Slab type 3Feb 10, 2015 5:37 pm My dad just finished an owner build in Taylor's hill. Came up great. Raft slab for sure. Re: Building in Taylors Hill Vic ? Slab type 4Feb 10, 2015 7:28 pm Crazyk Raft slab all the way. Will cost a little extra. Engineering will determine its design. I believe it's a more robust design and proven over time. I'm old school though. Thank you Crazyk I was thinking the same way , Good to get reassurance. Have you finish building your home ? Re: Building in Taylors Hill Vic ? Slab type 5Feb 10, 2015 7:30 pm Nope nearly at lockup. I got a raft slab and it turned out really good. Very nicely finished. Only had a couple of points where I had frame overhang but all in all the concreters did a great job. Re: Building in Taylors Hill Vic ? Slab type 6Feb 10, 2015 7:45 pm [quote="Christoshizz"]My dad just finished an owner build in Taylor's hill. Came up great. Raft slab for sure.[/quote Thank you Christoshizz. Is your home Single or Double ? Can you ask your dad to be my builder too!!! I am looking at picking a builder , its a very hard decision. I am look a few options ? but leaning towards a private builder. Re: Building in Taylors Hill Vic ? Slab type 7Feb 10, 2015 7:52 pm My dad is too anal and didn't trust a builder so he contacted it out and did it all himself. Single storey but the slab is over engineered to so he could have built a small African village on it. Around that area the volume builders do 90 percent of the builds from what I've seen. Re: Building in Taylors Hill Vic ? Slab type 8Feb 10, 2015 7:53 pm Aube as a rough guide, and this has been discussed at length in other threads, volume guys are around $1000/m2 private guys 1500-3000/m2 depending on how high end you go. The best word of advice I can give is understand your site costs and minimise any provisional costs or sums. Re: Building in Taylors Hill Vic ? Slab type 9Feb 10, 2015 7:57 pm Crazyk Aube as a rough guide, and this has been discussed at length in other threads, volume guys are around $1000/m2 private guys 1500-3000/m2 depending on how high end you go. The best word of advice I can give is understand your site costs and minimise any provisional costs or sums. Thank you Crazyk appreciate your thoughts Howdy all. I am looking for feedback on what people would do to maximise and make an area as flat as possible. First, out the front of the house is a sloping hill, pretty… 0 20167 I brought terry road box hill in June 2022 House was meant to be completed Nov 2023 That did not happen I had to chase them so much to the land Registration and… 0 2520 I have posted this before: We hired Darbecca to do every stage inspection, and I strongly recommend them to anyone that asks me. They were amazing. Thorough reports… 2 4518 |