Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 941Oct 20, 2019 3:45 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 943Oct 21, 2019 6:34 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 944Oct 21, 2019 9:12 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 945Oct 24, 2019 8:15 am Mark Armstrong BSc (Eng) MIEAust CPEng Development Manager http://www.katanafoundations.com.au http://www.polyvoid.com.au http://www.biax.com.au Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 946Oct 25, 2019 10:04 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: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 951Jul 19, 2020 8:42 pm Mauromario Just type in to google AS 2870 1996 it will bring you up for in pdf now there is also a AS2870 2011 it was updated they only added extra soil tyles that all, bjt you may be able to down load the AS2870 2011 free i am not sure yet , the drainage system around your home you must be disined by a civil and structural engineer and at times a house on reactive clay must have concrete piers to stop from the sinking but when you slab heave all con rete piers have to be tied to the slab anotner wise its useless on heave. I am having that done now after wining our case at vcat against a large volume builder with the help from very good people on this forum, plus having a great lawyer mark croft who is a ex builder turned lawyer, after ending 4 year with our old lawyer as some said on hefe he was in it for him self found out bit late. Mark .croft ended our case in less then 9 months he saved us as a family mentally and physically and stress. He was God sent for us. Hi, Thanks, I actually googled the 2011 version a short while ago and found a pdf online! I do have drainage advice on my engineer plans -I had overlooked it. Congratulations on your VCAT win. I know how unbelievably stressful the whole process can be. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 952Jul 19, 2020 8:54 pm It almost broke us physically and menatally, only after we changed lawyer after 4 years of heart ache we dumped our lawyer and found .mark croft legal he is a Ex builder turned lawyer he saved us from more heartache and ended our case in less then 9 months dystroyed the builder and got our legal cost back less reports we paid for , now the builder must fix everything according to our terms of agreement they start next week with our own engineer that has disigned the underpinning and the drainage system around our house with strip drains and AG drain in between garage and fence. Lots of work for the builder, its costing them more then the house go figure this. Let me know if i can help.
Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 953Jul 19, 2020 8:58 pm Mauromario It almost broke us physically and menatally, only after we changed lawyer after 4 years of heart ache we dumped our lawyer and found .mark croft legal he is a Ex builder turned lawyer he saved us from more heartache and ended our case in less then 9 months dystroyed the builder and got our legal cost back less reports we paid for , not the builder must fix everything according to our terms of agreement they start next week with our own engineer that has disigned the underpinning and the drainage system around our house with strip drains and AG drain in between garage and fence. Lots of work for the builder, its costing them more then the house go figure this. Let me know if i can help. Believe me, I know all about it. We're still fighting. I'm really pleased you won -it's a rare occurrence. Do you have a thread where I can read about your experience? Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 954Jul 19, 2020 9:05 pm It's a absolute disgrace and very convenient that drainage,slab protection, concrete protecting your slab isn't a mandatory part of a builders job,u shouldn't be able to move in without it,as if it's not a major contributor to slab problems,it's the first thing all builders will use as a excuse to get out of their responsibilities,it's obviously why it's not part of their responsibilities. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 955Jul 19, 2020 9:09 pm Joker It's a absolute disgrace and very convenient that drainage,slab protection, concrete protecting your slab isn't a mandatory part of a builders job,u shouldn't be able to move in without it,as if it's not a major contributor to slab problems,it's the first thing all builders will use as a excuse to get out of their responsibilities,it's obviously why it's not part of their responsibilities. Yes, I agree -it's absolutely appalling. It's their 'get out of jail free' card. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 956Jul 19, 2020 9:10 pm Its on facebook in a private forum called negative experice with burbank everyone is on that pageyou will find my problems with pictures to show everyone why its so important to stand your ground against builders and arm your self with the right information and take lots of photos during construction and after till now. Its your best fight evidence. If you think your lawyer is not doing the right thing by you change dont hang on as we did it almost broke us then we flund mark croft legal ex builder turned lawyer. God sent for us he saved us. His website is mark croft legal 1300366119. If needed just tell him the guy from portarlington referred you to him. Thats if you want. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 957Jul 19, 2020 9:13 pm Mauromario Its on facebook in a private forum called negative experice with burbank everyone is on that pageyou will find my problems with pictures to show everyone why its so important to stand your ground against builders and arm your self with the right information and take lots of photos during construction and after till now. Its your best fight evidence. If you think your lawyer is not doing the right thing by you change dont hang on as we did it almost broke us then we flund mark croft legal ex builder turned lawyer. God sent for us he saved us. His website is mark croft legal 1300366119. If needed just tell him the guy from portarlington referred you to him. Thats if you want. Thank you, much appreciated. I will find your FB group. I really am so very pleased for you. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 958Jul 19, 2020 9:18 pm Hi joker we just won against a major volume builder they must underpinning our house and install underground drainage around the house has i had put in place strip drains myself with concrete paving because they left us in mud knee high. Its take us all this time after dumping our first lawyer bloody useless we found mark croft legal ex builder turned lawyer he was bloody great to watch him work at CC vcat . Very happy after so many years we have steve buratt on our side to disign everything. Finally some good news. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 959Jul 19, 2020 9:23 pm Mauromario Hi joker we just won against a major volume builder they must underpinning our house and install underground drainage around the house has i had put in place strip drains myself with concrete paving because they left us in mud knee high. Its take us all this time after dumping our first lawyer bloody useless we found mark croft legal ex builder turned lawyer he was bloody great to watch him work at CC vcat . Very happy after so many years we have steve buratt on our side to disign everything. Finally some good news. Re: Has anyone rectified slab heave successfully 960Jul 19, 2020 9:40 pm Look it took changing lawyers as everyone on here was warning me about the lawyer been in it for himself how true that was , he was just playing us when we kept telling him the evedance is in our files bloody use it, for some reson he kept hiding the must crucial eveidance we had how the builder asked the geotechnical engineers to alter the reports in favor of the builder, how many times does this happen i will relese all of the documents I have to the media because i know how slab heave is created in Victoria i have proof photos documents to prove to Australia how builders are getting away with everything, the only reason builder settle with becase we asked our new lawyer to send a open letter to all parties involved includin vcat memeber Livene so we can never be gagged never we made sure of that so the letter had that all evidance will be used at all hearing or public . The builder got egg in his face as there lawyer and the Victoria state manager went red faced and settle to our terms and conditions what ever we wanted we got. Its unfortunate that a lot of people dont take phots from word go epty block photos that how catch if soil test has actually been done which i can prove they dont it at all that way we have slab heave because soil test is not done properly with laboratory testing they just do tectile test which is wrong it must be done in a lab, we had a soil test done and cost 5.5k so i dont think builders are paying anything near that other the $600 may be that wrong. Stud my ground it was not easy but we got throught it. Win win win Hi All, we are starting to think of building with Masterpiece Builders in Victoria, has anyone had any feedback or experience with them 0 14452 Hi we are looking to talk to people who have built with them recently. We have signed mid range built contract but identified that a lot of things are not included.… 0 1739 I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 16357 |