Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Buried oil tank found on so called Vacant Building Block 2Jul 23, 2014 9:58 pm People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people. Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmDX0tgONFs http://lightndreamy.blogspot.com/ Re: Buried oil tank found on so called Vacant Building Block 3Jul 23, 2014 10:10 pm Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Buried oil tank found on so called Vacant Building Block 5Jul 25, 2014 10:16 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Buried oil tank found on so called Vacant Building Block 6Jul 25, 2014 1:33 pm I agree with building expert. It wasnt a large tank, and really you never know what you are going to encounter under the topsoil. Lots of people bury asbestos this way, rubble, etc. 3K is not such a bad outlay. Land searches will not necessarily uncover such things either. Unless the contract specifically states that the vendor warrants the soil to be free of A,B,C etc, you have buckleys chance of achieving anything from VCAT. Even if it did state it, you'd still have buckleys. It would cost you 1OK+ to get a lawyer to mount a case. Forget it and suck it up. Re: Buried oil tank found on so called Vacant Building Block 7Jul 25, 2014 10:20 pm I built my own home about 15 years ago. I had lived in the old house upon the land for 6 years before deciding to demolish and rebuild. My new house was to be a weatherboard on stumps. When I had all the string lines in place,the old lady next door stuck her head over the fence and said- I think there is an old well around there,pointing to the ground. I did some digging and found some bricks,followed them around and they formed a circle about 2.4m dia plumb smack under the corner of my proposed new house.I spanned it with a couple of bored piers 3.6 m deep each side.hasn't moved. Strange thing was that after the old house was demolished,and the land roughly graded,I was looking at dried brown top soil over the whole block apart from this area which was quite dark in relation to the rest of the block. Guess in times gone by the old orchardists picked this place to dig their well. Goes to show,soil tests can't pick up everything. Re: Buried oil tank found on so called Vacant Building Block 9Jul 28, 2014 6:10 pm Yes RB9, if the tank was full of gold bars, I certainly would not be having a conversation with anyone about anything. Can understand asking the question though. Re: Buried oil tank found on so called Vacant Building Block 10Jul 29, 2014 8:40 pm I think your just going to have to cop it. With us we were demolishing our house when like chippy the neighbour stuck his head over the fence and said, oh there used to be an old stone wall fence running the width of our block half way down. Yep sure enough scratched a bit of topsoil and I had a foundation 300mm x 400mm x 17m long...had a disgruntled demo bloke because his quote said level and clean block. How was he to know that was there. To keep the peace I swung him $200 cash and he was happy. It's a very unusual way of finishing a barge board. I'd say it was done by a handyman rather than a carpenter as there would normally be the barge and a scribe and no… 3 2111 I'd try posting it on airtasker. I am sure you will find someone willing do take them for a couple of hundred $ 1 747 I'm about to put down some Merbau. Is it necessary to oil underneath the boards before laying? 0 2805 |