Browse Forums Renovation + Home Improvement 1 Mar 28, 2011 4:52 pm Hey All, Quick question. I'm having an extension put on our house, and the builder is "levelling" the existing structure before he starts building. Fair enough, I want that. He seems to be going around with a bottle jack and a laser level and placing rectangles of fibre board on top of some of the concrete pillars to bring the height up. Questions are, is this a legit way to do this, and how much should be be paying for this service as I have a suspicion he is trying to pull a fast one and make some extra cash. Also, I'm expecting him to level the whole house and not just the ones that he needs to get straight so he can do the extension building. This is the usual thing? Thanks all, I'm a bit nervous about this whole thing. Re: Levelling before an extension is built? 2Mar 29, 2011 12:05 pm Jacking up the floor and putting any material you can find that will take the weight is how its done. It should probably be an $hr type job, so whatever the hourly rate is x # of hours it takes. Usually you can get an idea if you were replacing eh stumps, but if yours are OK then just lift the level will be fine. Hi guys, I want to do some floor levelling before laying the planks and am considering doing it with self-levelling or yellow tongue PB board. I am wondering which one… 0 6556 1 2992 Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 8505 |