Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: how much do you pay for soil engineer to draw up plans ? 7May 07, 2009 10:14 am We paid about 2000, but that was for a house nearly completely on stumps, sloping block with cantilevered deck requiring a bit of effort. If your house was a standard slab and double story and not too difficult, you would probably find your architect could put in the bearer spans etc, we used posi struts to reach larger spans and the engineer looked after all that. 3 6412 The engineering is the engineering. It's irrelevant how much material you have. Unless it fits the requirements of your design the engineer can't "make"it work. You might… 7 9692 |