Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Jun 30, 2009 4:18 pm Building the Pegasus New Generation Bletchley Pk, Southern River Land purchased 03/2009 Contract 06/2009 Prestart 09/2009 Land cleared/sand Pad 10-12-09 Fittings done 17-12-09 SLAB!! 18-12-09 Brickies started 27-1-10 Roof Started 2-3-10 Lock Up 13-5-10 Re: cost of soakwells 3Jun 30, 2009 10:58 pm Building the Pegasus New Generation Bletchley Pk, Southern River Land purchased 03/2009 Contract 06/2009 Prestart 09/2009 Land cleared/sand Pad 10-12-09 Fittings done 17-12-09 SLAB!! 18-12-09 Brickies started 27-1-10 Roof Started 2-3-10 Lock Up 13-5-10 Re: cost of soakwells 15Jul 11, 2009 10:44 pm Thanks Fu. That does make it easier to understand. And you have a pretty corner of garden! I will no doubt be asking everyone heaps more questions when mine are ready to go in! What is your job? You said you do heaps of these. Are you a landscape designer? Or is that a secret too? My tac-home-ter: Been in 8 months! Re: cost of soakwells 19Jul 22, 2009 12:32 pm As has been said above when the water hits the ground here in Perth it soaks into our sand plain very quickly. When I dug up the old soak wells around the old house (now demolished and a new one built) that had been in for 50 years they were completely silted up. I have not and will not be installing soak wells to the new house as thet are really not needed for our sandy location. So save yourself some money and don't worry about them. 7 11930 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37085 Fair Trading can issue orders to rectify and complete but once the matter goes to NCAT these orders are automatically vacated. You will have to terminate contract and sue… 21 29677 |