Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Metricon 7193May 19, 2018 10:16 am Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building with Metricon 7197May 19, 2018 10:39 am Renman shokel1975 Renman Fireplace installation height assistance needed ASAP. We are installing a built in 1300mm wide fire place. Just wanted to know from those that have a fire place, what height off the ground did you install them and if you had to do it again would you change the height? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Have you looked at the display homes and measured where their units sit? I am going out to the Glendale 42 at Rockbank today renman.... want me to measure the fireplace there for you? Re: Building with Metricon 7198May 19, 2018 10:54 am excited_builders Doulton777 Geo1 [quote="sandymeo"]Got assessed as class p slab. Does anyone know what means to the slab and how much more it will cost? Hi Sandymeo, You will need to specify why your site has been classified as Class P, before we can assist. Class P, means problem site and this covers multiple aspects i.e. Trees, knock down/rebuild, uncontrolled/non structural fill, old dams the list goes on. Each will entail a different design, for example, if you have a mature tree front right of your property and clay soils the site will be classified as Class P and the engineer will most likely just include a few extra piers to deal with the situation. However if you have 4metres of uncontrolled/non structural fill across your site then the engineer will design piers 5metres+ deep across the site. You can see the difference in costs. Your borehole report/site classification report/bore survey many names for it this day, will/should give the reason for the Class P, and therefore you need to obtain a copy and understand the reason, if it does not make sense then do not be afraid to p. Pick up the phone and call the geotechnical consultant. They should be more then happy to explain the reasoning behind the Class P. From there if the builder doesn't give you a reasonable reply as to why one cost is associated to the other, seek a third party opinion. Regards Geo1 I agree ours was P because of trees out the front. As well as we needed 60 piers as next door neighbours build on the fence line. Therefor when we moved it across it was close to the other side we were close to neighbours easement. As well as I think our soil was more like clay. Good thing they found rock after we fixed site cost. As soil test never detected it. viewtopic.php?t=86597 [/quote]You should be able to count them or even better that a drone pic of the piers when they are put in. Re: Building with Metricon 7199May 19, 2018 10:56 am shokel1975 Renman shokel1975 [quote="Renman"]Fireplace installation height assistance needed ASAP. We are installing a built in 1300mm wide fire place. Just wanted to know from those that have a fire place, what height off the ground did you install them and if you had to do it again would you change the height? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Have you looked at the display homes and measured where their units sit? I am going out to the Glendale 42 at Rockbank today renman.... want me to measure the fireplace there for you?[/quote]That would be great if you can. Just from the ground of the start of the glass panel and if have any pics that shows a sofa in the pic that fantastic as it will give us some perspective Re: Building with Metricon 7200May 19, 2018 11:14 am excited_builders Doulton777 Geo1 [quote="sandymeo"]Got assessed as class p slab. Does anyone know what means to the slab and how much more it will cost? Hi Sandymeo, You will need to specify why your site has been classified as Class P, before we can assist. Class P, means problem site and this covers multiple aspects i.e. Trees, knock down/rebuild, uncontrolled/non structural fill, old dams the list goes on. Each will entail a different design, for example, if you have a mature tree front right of your property and clay soils the site will be classified as Class P and the engineer will most likely just include a few extra piers to deal with the situation. However if you have 4metres of uncontrolled/non structural fill across your site then the engineer will design piers 5metres+ deep across the site. You can see the difference in costs. Your borehole report/site classification report/bore survey many names for it this day, will/should give the reason for the Class P, and therefore you need to obtain a copy and understand the reason, if it does not make sense then do not be afraid to p. Pick up the phone and call the geotechnical consultant. They should be more then happy to explain the reasoning behind the Class P. From there if the builder doesn't give you a reasonable reply as to why one cost is associated to the other, seek a third party opinion. Regards Geo1 I agree ours was P because of trees out the front. As well as we needed 60 piers as next door neighbours build on the fence line. Therefor when we moved it across it was close to the other side we were close to neighbours easement. As well as I think our soil was more like clay. Good thing they found rock after we fixed site cost. As soil test never detected it. viewtopic.php?t=86597 [/quote]Each pier will have a blue cap on it that you can see before they prep for the pour.. They will always use the number advised by engineering as they can't warranty the slab otherwise 80 is a LOT! we had 28 and they were close together!!! Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. 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