Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: Protecting your Slab 487Jun 12, 2015 2:04 pm goody59 For those about to build read this thread from A to Z. Far more important that the colour choice of the walls in your new house. Most people see this thread after issues arise. perhaps promoting this thread outside of this thread might highlight its importance to a broader audience. Creator of superduperonium, expert at expert things, nobel laureate, can hold my breath for 10 minutes. Re: Protecting your Slab 488Jun 12, 2015 2:11 pm Ponzu goody59 For those about to build read this thread from A to Z. Far more important that the colour choice of the walls in your new house. Most people see this thread after issues arise. perhaps promoting this thread outside of this thread might highlight its importance to a broader audience. I agree 100% but have no idea how it can be in everybody's face without continually bumping it up. Re: Protecting your Slab 489Jun 12, 2015 5:14 pm goody59 Ponzu goody59 For those about to build read this thread from A to Z. Far more important that the colour choice of the walls in your new house. Most people see this thread after issues arise. perhaps promoting this thread outside of this thread might highlight its importance to a broader audience. I agree 100% but have no idea how it can be in everybody's face without continually bumping it up. Request a sticky. Creator of superduperonium, expert at expert things, nobel laureate, can hold my breath for 10 minutes. Re: Protecting your Slab 491Jun 20, 2015 9:23 am goody59 How do you request a sticky for this thread? If it is going to be made a sticky, then it really needs to be moved to the more appropriate sub forum, i.e. building standards I guess. You also have to remember that the admins have to be really selective as to what they make sticky, as it's no good to have a dozen sticky threads in a sub forum as they lose their effectness, and often spoils/becomes a nuisance for people trying to read new posts in that sub forum. It becomes a case of damned if they do, damned if they don't. FWIW, I reckon the better option is to move this thread to a more appropriate forum, i.e. Building Standards. It then won't scroll off the first page with the dozens of daily new posts that it would in the Building a new home sub forum. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Protecting your Slab 494Sep 23, 2018 8:58 am Considering this, then should I be fine if I install artificial lawn around the house (with builder plastic underneath)? insider robbie55 This might be a silly question but is there an alternative to concrete around the slab? Would compacted road base under pavers be enough? Is there any safe way to have a garden bed directly against the slab? With plastic sloped away you can put anything on top as long as it doesn't puncture the plastic Builders plastic is good maybe even doubled up to be sure. As far as a garden against the house wall goes nothing that needs watering and very shallow roofs that won't get through the plastic so realistically flowers or ground cover plants that don't need watering. If you look at the drainage crossection posted earlier and remove the concete and replace it with gravels and topsoil that's what you should be aiming for Re: Protecting your Slab 497Mar 05, 2019 10:40 am My house is nearing completion and I am arranging concreting and drainage all the the way around the perimeter. The area below in red will be concreted and drained. Ideally I would like to have lawn right up to the alfresco with subsurface drainage, without a concrete apron around the alfresco as well . Is this a bad idea or should I just concrete the green area (1m wide) as well?? Thanks Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Protecting your Slab 498Mar 05, 2019 11:21 am brokenstick My house is nearing completion and I am arranging concreting and drainage all the the way around the perimeter. The area below in red will be concreted and drained. Ideally I would like to have lawn right up to the alfresco with subsurface drainage, without a concrete apron around the alfresco as well . Is this a bad idea or should I just concrete the green area (1m wide) as well?? Thanks Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Protecting your Slab 499Mar 19, 2019 6:49 pm sweetswisssteel brokenstick My house is nearing completion and I am arranging concreting and drainage all the the way around the perimeter. The area below in red will be concreted and drained. Ideally I would like to have lawn right up to the alfresco with subsurface drainage, without a concrete apron around the alfresco as well . Is this a bad idea or should I just concrete the green area (1m wide) as well?? Thanks Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Is that correct? Only 25mm fall. Some say it's 75mm fall. Hmmm Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 16105 4 6193 The concreter will take and reuse. In my case I bought structural LVLs and scraped them back and used them as joists. 1 5150 |