Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: Protecting your Slab 491Jun 20, 2015 9:23 am 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 16122 4 6201 The concreter will take and reuse. In my case I bought structural LVLs and scraped them back and used them as joists. 1 5152 |