Browse Forums Buying Land Re: soil test before purchase? 26Mar 27, 2015 5:04 pm poohbear leighton When a subdivision goes in the developer may fill some areas. This will be shown on the subdivision plan. You can check how much fill will be placed. Unlikely to be much fill, but make your contract subject to a soil test, just for safety. Well our disclosure plan showed that its a cut land whereas the lot nextdoor is a partially filled land. developer are not willing to go with subject to satisfactory soil test any ideas? Ask him if he would mind you doing a soil test as you would like to budget for the house to be constructed. Then have a subject to finance clause. Then do the soil test and if it's bad then use the finance clause to get out of the contract of it's good then you know and can use it when negotiating with builders about site costs. We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37160 Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 12345 Hi Building Expert, Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated, there is also a code of conduct for building surveyors which they need to follow as well. I am looking… 4 3680 |