Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: Rec for strip footing company MELB 6Jan 28, 2010 4:34 pm Thanks for that borg! I'll save the pictures to my laptop tomorrow as they're very useful! Custom European Cabinets - Melbourne Kitchen Specialist PM for business details as website currently being updated! Our Crazy Owner Builder Journey! Re: Rec for strip footing company MELB 7Jan 30, 2010 9:31 pm Bam, we built on stumps and had brick sub floors to some areas due to our slope. In regards to the footings, being the brickwork up to subfloor level a concreter will look after the strip footings, then the brickie will brick up to height. In regards to the stumps, a chippie will do that no worries. I marked out 75 stump holes, employed a bloke to dig the holes, ordered the stumps then the chippies turned up with the concrete truck, jumped on a barrow filled the holes then the chippies placed the stumps in, levelled them up lasered the height, they sat for a few days then off we went with the bearers and joists. hope it helps if you have anything more specific let us know. Re: Rec for strip footing company MELB 8Jan 30, 2010 11:48 pm Thank you hunt! I suppose you can use the same concreter who does the slab for the garage to do the concreting for the footings? What about the reo? Do we organise is it and lay it, or would the concreter typically do this? I really should start contacting excavators and concreters shouldnt I? I should start a list of what I need to do me thinks... Custom European Cabinets - Melbourne Kitchen Specialist PM for business details as website currently being updated! Our Crazy Owner Builder Journey! Re: Rec for strip footing company MELB 9Jan 31, 2010 5:56 pm No worries, depending on your site, we are doing an infill garage slab, which basically means at the end of the build or at a latter date they pour the garage slab, but definately the concreters could do both at the same time. In regards to the reo, I would get them to do it definately, thats not to say you can't buy it and have it sittin there and they can drop it in. The footings generally require the reo to be tied and placed in position, I didn;t even attempt to do that, at the end of the day if you get your footings wrong the rest of the house will suffer, thats one area where I left it to the pros. Theres heaps of other areas to save on Bam when owner building, footings is one I didn't try. That said there is no reason you can't source all the materials and pay a concreter for labour, that way you are cutting out their margin. cheers hunts Re: Rec for strip footing company MELB 10Jan 31, 2010 5:59 pm Very very true! Silly question, but if you get your garage slab poured at a later date, how would this work with the bricking up of the house? Custom European Cabinets - Melbourne Kitchen Specialist PM for business details as website currently being updated! Our Crazy Owner Builder Journey! Re: Rec for strip footing company MELB 11Jan 31, 2010 7:35 pm A wise person once told me you can never ask a silly question. The footings are basically the supports that the brickwork sits on, they use it to 'tie' in the house. Your footings for the brickwork may be 450 to 600 mm wide and the same deep, and the brickies will brick up on this. Whether or not you do your garage now or later doesn't really matter. The footings may have a nominal depth of say 400mm or to natural ground, the garage definately will not be the same depth, so to paint a picture the footings depth wont continue across your garage slab, like a big slab, the footing will be whatever the engineer specifies, the garage slab will just be to standard specifications, unless you are having a suspended garage floor or something tricky like that, which is above my head.! Us for example have our footings 600mm wide, 450 deep (retaining wall as well). The garage slab will be on natural ground level which is the height of the top of the footings, the slab will however tie into the strip footings as they are about 400mm away from the brick work wall. (if that makes sense)!! Re: Rec for strip footing company MELB 12Jan 31, 2010 7:58 pm hunts01 A wise person once told me you can never ask a silly question. The footings are basically the supports that the brickwork sits on, they use it to 'tie' in the house. Your footings for the brickwork may be 450 to 600 mm wide and the same deep, and the brickies will brick up on this. Whether or not you do your garage now or later doesn't really matter. The footings may have a nominal depth of say 400mm or to natural ground, the garage definately will not be the same depth, so to paint a picture the footings depth wont continue across your garage slab, like a big slab, the footing will be whatever the engineer specifies, the garage slab will just be to standard specifications, unless you are having a suspended garage floor or something tricky like that, which is above my head.! Us for example have our footings 600mm wide, 450 deep (retaining wall as well). The garage slab will be on natural ground level which is the height of the top of the footings, the slab will however tie into the strip footings as they are about 400mm away from the brick work wall. (if that makes sense)!! I had to re-read the post twice, but now I understand! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Custom European Cabinets - Melbourne Kitchen Specialist PM for business details as website currently being updated! Our Crazy Owner Builder Journey! yep sounds good make the footing bigger to to allow for the pipe in the middle 3 7423 PM me your email. I have a build excavation calculator you can use based on your plans to double check what your builder is telling you. Cheers Simeon 1 10426 I've dug some footings to embed a post anchor into. My holes are around 450mm deep which I'll put a 200mm stirrup into. The bottom of these holes seem firm enough. … 0 3473 |