Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Second soil test after demolition 2Jun 14, 2010 10:00 am Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Second soil test after demolition 5Jun 14, 2010 10:58 am Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Second soil test after demolition 7Jun 14, 2010 5:02 pm http://ourlamontbuild-allydandmei.blogspot.com/ Initial signing and deposit done Soil test done Contract signed Demolition of old house done All finance approved Building approval from council Site prep done Trenching done Re: Second soil test after demolition 9Jun 14, 2010 9:17 pm Hi Yellow, we are hanging out for the completion of the demo ~ they have started taking our old house down last week ~ as then we will have a second soil test completed. Site costs can then be finalised. Currently have allowance for a P class slab, so we will see what happens after the second soil test. We are taking down 9 big mature trees, so there will be a fair amount of movement in the soil. We are hoping the site can't get much worse than P class!! It's all about the trees for us... hoping they won't find a septic tank buried under there anywhere! Instead of a post-contract variation, we are waiting on the information prior to finalising the contract ~ everything else is pretty much done + waiting on this. Our builder prefers for the second soil test to be done *prior* to the contract being finalised, so that the contract reflects to the fullest extent the expectation of what site costs are required for the block. Don't know if that helps ~ good luck + keep us posted. ~ cheers, J _______________________________________________________________ We're a knockdown | rebuild ~ Melb SE burbs Building modified version of the Fairhaven Glenaire Homeone thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28429 _______________________________________________________________ Re: Second soil test after demolition 11Jun 15, 2010 9:00 am We demolished and had our soil test done before the demolition. I don't think that they did a second soil test, however we are on stumps. They have done the strip footings however we are still waiting for the stumps to go in. As far as I am aware they may only need to adjust the stump footing size slightly based on what they encounter as they excavate for the individual footings. View our blog at: http://room4acubby.blogspot.com/ Re: Second soil test after demolition 12Jun 15, 2010 1:22 pm vanilla tree Hi Yellow, we are hanging out for the completion of the demo ~ they have started taking our old house down last week ~ as then we will have a second soil test completed. Site costs can then be finalised. Currently have allowance for a P class slab, so we will see what happens after the second soil test. We are taking down 9 big mature trees, so there will be a fair amount of movement in the soil. We are hoping the site can't get much worse than P class!! It's all about the trees for us... hoping they won't find a septic tank buried under there anywhere! Instead of a post-contract variation, we are waiting on the information prior to finalising the contract ~ everything else is pretty much done + waiting on this. Our builder prefers for the second soil test to be done *prior* to the contract being finalised, so that the contract reflects to the fullest extent the expectation of what site costs are required for the block. Don't know if that helps ~ good luck + keep us posted. ~ cheers, J We had singed the contract after the first soil test. We are also in the middle of demolition. We have two trees and our soild was rated P. Will see what happens on the second soil test. We are not using stumps. We do have a fall from front to back. First site Cost $16k Three options 1 Ask the liquidator 2 Find another PD customer and ask the source of their report 3 Pay for new report 3 14036 Hi Building Expert, Thank you for the feedback, much appreciated, there is also a code of conduct for building surveyors which they need to follow as well. I am looking… 4 4153 Its never a good idea to sign a building contract without making sure everything is selected, soil test is done Is are dotted and Ts are crossed and without independent… 4 3227 |