Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Soil Reports and Engineer's Report 5Jun 30, 2017 2:58 pm Building a Fairmont Custom in Seaford Meadows Our Build Thread Re: Soil Reports and Engineer's Report 7Jun 30, 2017 3:01 pm It was through the builder - but we "own" the reports, so if we decided to not go through our builder, we could take this information to another builder Re: Soil Reports and Engineer's Report 8Jun 30, 2017 3:21 pm Re: Soil Reports and Engineer's Report 10Jul 07, 2017 7:44 pm Our builder (Simonds) did the soil test after we'd put down an initial $2k desposit (they do soil tests, engineering reports, the proper floorplans getting generated and start checking your house against council regs and development reqs); but if we needed to withdraw at that point after the soil test was done and they came back with an unachievable footings price (fixed price), we could have and gotten the reports for us to keep. Re: Soil Reports and Engineer's Report 11Jul 07, 2017 8:39 pm We are currently thinking that we will go with Oakford.....we asked about doing the soil report in order to fix the price, and they have said we can pay to have the soil report done now, and then if we sign with them, the price will be credited off the house. If we don't sign, we will have the soil report that we have paid for. So that's probably what we will end up doing Re: Soil Reports and Engineer's Report 12Jul 08, 2017 8:09 am that sounds good - hope you get a good result for your soil It is true that a builder can ignore your independent inspection report as it is not part of the contractual arrangement but that is stupid because he cannot avoid fixing… 9 46979 4 7261 The engineering is the engineering. It's irrelevant how much material you have. Unless it fits the requirements of your design the engineer can't "make"it work. You might… 7 9767 |