Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jul 01, 2010 10:39 am Site Start: 10th September, 2010 PCI : Friday 27th January, 2011. Handover: 3rd February, 2011 Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37677 Re: H Class Slab Costs - HELP PLEASE 3Jul 01, 2010 11:03 am Site Start: 10th September, 2010 PCI : Friday 27th January, 2011. Handover: 3rd February, 2011 Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37677 Re: P Class Slab Costs - HELP PLEASE 6Jul 01, 2010 3:10 pm Site Start: 10th September, 2010 PCI : Friday 27th January, 2011. Handover: 3rd February, 2011 Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37677 Re: P Class Slab Costs - HELP PLEASE 9Jul 03, 2010 10:41 pm ---------------- upgraders Bel-Air 37 : Contemporary Fascade (Major Interior Makeover) <img border="0" src="http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;10738;127/st/20100317/e/Site+Start/dt/14/k/8a06/event.png"></a> Re: P Class Slab Costs - HELP PLEASE 11Jul 04, 2010 10:16 am The northern suburbs is full of clay and rock......some areas are really bad fo rthe rock. Have a look arounf older type houses in lalor thomaston and epping....All the brick fences are stuffed because of the clay. Re: H Class Slab Costs - HELP PLEASE 12Jul 04, 2010 10:26 am Lex kek ... We only had 1-1.8m of fill and piering along the rear edge of our slab to protect the sewer we built so close to ... Hi Kek, so you only had piers at that edge/side of the slab, ie. the rest of the slab is sitting on waffles only? Like one string line of piers and then no piers in the rest of the slab? Yup, that's right. Only the rear edge of the slab is piered - I think there are about 10-12 of them from memory. The sewer easement is 2m wide and we built to within 100mm of it at one end, and about 300mm at the other (the block isn't square, so the rear fence runs at a slight angle). A lot of blocks near us have piering to the entire slab. LOTS of fill in this area. Ours is compacted, so the fill wasn't a big deal, but protecting the sewer was. Re: P Class Slab Costs - HELP PLEASE 13Jul 04, 2010 11:34 am Hmm ... so it's not uncommon - there was a thread with the same issue by andy a few months ago ... his slab wasn't piered at all - which makes me wonder why do they seem to make it oh so important here in their contracts ... My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... I am not sure whether Perth has its own way of doing things in regards to this. Most of Perth has class A (sandy soil), except for some areas near rivers or hills. 2 13106 The Soil classification has little to do with piers. The purpose of the classing of the soil is to identify the clay content and the "average expected range of movement… 2 9862 I don’t think so as the floor area over 300 square meters then it is class 3…. 12 17942 |