Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Metricon Vantage 61Jan 31, 2018 9:56 am $5750 for them to reengineer the slab over the septic tank so they won’t even be putting weight on it. They said it would cost more to remove and fill because it’s been in there so long it’s filled with dirt (slab manager estimated 40 years when house was connected to sewerage) that the soil is all stable around it and removing it will mean they need to put in more stable dirt. Re: Metricon Vantage 62Jan 31, 2018 10:27 am Ouch Are you happy with the outcome? Building our first custom dream home. https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_ ... are_type=t Re: Metricon Vantage 63Jan 31, 2018 11:01 am sparrowsnest Ouch Are you happy with the outcome? Building our first custom dream home. https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_ ... are_type=t Well I don’t think anyone is ever happy with more expenses but I met the slab site manager and he was great and he really explained it all to me and it definitely sounds like the quickest, safest and cheapest way to proceed. Re: Metricon Vantage 64Feb 01, 2018 11:45 am Ok so turns out our BSC got confused and said we needed 25 new piers. It should have been 25 total and we already had 21. So price is $1550. Thank God Re: Metricon Vantage 65Feb 01, 2018 2:00 pm emmyawards Ok so turns out our BSC got confused and said we needed 25 new piers. It should have been 25 total and we already had 21. So price is $1550. Thank God Yay! That’s a much better amount! It’s good that they took the time to explain it to you and your happy with the outcome, other than the cost of course Your best bet might be to go visit the display homes and walk around in them, and take photos. Get a feel for it in person instead of deciding from the floor plan. There… 1 21436 Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 10732 Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 8179 |