Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Questions about retaining walls 18Mar 02, 2018 5:39 pm We have a 3m fall over where we have positioned our house. It meant a 1.5 m cut and 1.5m fill we now have to do retaining walls on each side and just to do ourselves just in materials it’s going to cost about 15 k. And break our backs lol. Retaining walls are quite expensive. I’m not sure about the site costs side of it as we built a custom house and we already had the contour and site test so the builder quoted it all together. Building our first custom dream home. https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?share_ ... are_type=t Re: Questions about retaining walls 19Nov 26, 2020 4:12 pm Hiring an architect to suit the land with stepped house would be good investment rather than spending money for massive cut and fill for custom home. You can either design a stepping house or multistory using the natural slope or also use footings Re: Questions about retaining walls 20Nov 26, 2020 5:09 pm Either you pay for cut and fill or you invest into retaining walls throughout and deal with tons of staircases in your house... If you can achieve prominent house position with just cut and fill, e.g. having basement/garage on the ground level, then go for it. Otherwise, you might indeed be better off with split design. Not sure what council area you are in. Some LGA's allow zero lot retaining walls. This usually occurs in greenfield developments but not often in established areas. You… 1 8252 4 11221 Render your bathroom walls, two opinions versus the one, makes you wonder. 3 6064 |