Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Bricks on/over limestone retaining VS Drop Footings 2Feb 23, 2020 8:45 am Hi lizzabeta Welcome to the forum.. Photos of the limestone wall helps Who did your Architectural Drawings, they should have pointed out major potential issues I suggest you look at the builders certified construction/engineering details, costs and then decide Also you'll need the certified Engineering Drawings for the existing limestone wall and proof that it supports the new applied loads Unfortunately it gets messy and worse should things go wrong with structural warranties further down the track OT 1m and higher retaining/parapet walls requires reinforcement Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Bricks on/over limestone retaining VS Drop Footings 3Feb 23, 2020 6:34 pm Hi StructuralBIMGuy, thanks for the info. Yep, our designer actually was on site a few times when designing the house. Sorry, just have to add, there is no existing limestone retaining there at the moment, just a raw sloped, sandy, class A, land. I think the idea is for the builders is to install new "tiered" type limestone retaining or drop footings. I just paid the preliminary plans agreement (PPA) money so I think this is where they do the "engineering" and in detail costing. I'll just have to wait and see how what the engineering results are and what it cost. If possible, I'll try to share it in this forum. Re: Bricks on/over limestone retaining VS Drop Footings 5Aug 30, 2020 2:51 pm Hi Chris, You were right. Dropped footing would have been the better option. Unfortunately I had actually been swayed to use the brick over limestone option during design stage and now I am facing the slip ups associated with this option. We found out that the team laying the limestone blocks were different to the team laying the bricks, so there is currently a misalignment with the measurements. This made some areas of the brick work flushed with the limestone block base and some areas had a 15-20mm recess to it. Thankfully no overhangs. Abit upset, but I hope if someone here decides to consider this option, this would be one of the risk. I'd definitely choose dropped footings in future. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Bricks on/over limestone retaining VS Drop Footings 6Mar 23, 2021 11:59 pm Hi lizzabeta, Just looking for your feedback regarding the brick over limestone blocks (instead of dropped footings) now that some time has elapsed. Would you recommend having this or would you advise to go with dropped footings? Any cracking issues? Hello everyone, After some suggestions and ideas about how to put a concrete path around the drop edge beam area on our new build. We are required to have a concrete path… 0 12871 The distance between my DEBs varies from 4.1m at the narrowest to 8.1m at the widest. 5 27305 I would like to build our new house with the rear section approx 1 metre out of the ground, I don't particularly like to go bearers and joists so concrete slab all the way… 0 3813 |