Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum 1 Mar 27, 2010 3:18 pm hi guys ive just bought a block in the gippsland area and plan to owner build a holiday house there. i have built a couple of houses before both being on slabs, but i have never built with stumps, does a surveyor set out the house with pegs and the stump guys work off that. and do re-stumpers generally do new stumps? how much do they charge per stump? any help advice would be appreciated thanks Re: who do you get to mark where your stumps go? 2Mar 27, 2010 3:25 pm hi guys ive just bought a block in the gippsland area and plan to build a holiday house on stumps there. ive built a couple of houses before both on slabs but have never built one on stumps. do you get your house set out and the stump guys work off those string lines? do house restumpers generally do new stumps? how much do they chrge per stump for concrete stumps? thanks any help/advice would be much appreciated Re: who do you get to mark where your stumps go? 3Mar 28, 2010 5:19 pm we got a builder to mark out our house cost us $40.00 then we marked the spot for each stump and done rest ourselves but i rang a few house stumpers and quite a few wouldnt do new houses look in yellow pages and ring around ask them if they will mark it out 1st or not gl stay safe happy building Re: who do you get to mark where your stumps go? 4Mar 29, 2010 12:16 pm Hi there, i marked mine out myself after a surveyor had pegged out the boundaries. The engineering plans had the layout design. Other than that just get a chippie to set it out for you, especially if they will be installing the stump s as well Re: who do you get to mark where your stumps go? 5Mar 30, 2010 4:04 pm we had a surveyor mark out the house boundary, and the chippies marked, dug and installed the stumps. Much quicker and easier that way View our story on here in photo form: http://simonandrachshouse.posterous.com/ Always get multiple quotes, no matter how reasonable/cheap you think it is. I remember getting a few quotes for a pool fence, roughly around the same price, thinking the… 5 9686 If you're in a flood zone, not only are you dealing with the importation of fill and laying it down in 150 lifts to achieve compaction, you're going to have to consider… 4 5532 Are they stumps or screw piles ? How much fill is there, is the site a class "P" ? A "H2" site is not supposed to have stumps it is supposed to have grid beams according… 1 6940 |