Browse Forums General Discussion Re: 3 Year old slab moving, now blamed on Landscaping 26Oct 17, 2011 7:48 pm Some people apparently have nothing better to do than comment on other people's sigs. Re: 3 Year old slab moving, now blamed on Landscaping 38Oct 19, 2011 5:59 pm That area is never wet (thats why the dog has a dog door there) but there is a layer of gravel i put down on top of the surface left over from the driveway. I dug down 30-40cm the other day and it felt like moist clay but not soggy or pooling. What do people expect the ground (clay) to be like at that depth? I might try dig somewhere else that is less likely to be affected and see Re: 3 Year old slab moving, now blamed on Landscaping 39Oct 19, 2011 9:24 pm I was very surprised to see that some 5-10 cm below the top, the soil is still very much moist. Chris, how do you ensure that the water runs into the drain and not in between the path and the drain? Should there be some really good seal ?? My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: 3 Year old slab moving, now blamed on Landscaping 40Oct 22, 2011 11:09 am Can I just buy into the arguement here.Jimmy I am in williams landing having the same problems as you. My block is built up a fair amount and has slope well above what is required. We have had a very serve case of cracking in the house and slab movement. less then 2 years after moving in. I also own a rental property in tarneit, just up the road no more then 3 km we built almost 5 years ago. the edges of the block slope back towards the house and we have never had a problem with any cracking. Neither place has had concrete paths. Ive done a walk around my neighbours houses asking about the problems with cupping. I can tell you at least 50% do with mine being the most serve. It didn't matter who had paths or gradens around the property and have to say a lot of them had a common builder. Have a walk around your neighbour hood and see how many people have a continous 900 mm path around the house including the front. I think youd be lucky to find 1 in 50. The reality is even the engineers have no real idea how to prevent this. Hence it is happening. In mass. Push the issue with the builder, if they try to blame your house offer to walk around the neighbourhood with them and knock on peoples doors and ask them if they have the same problems. You will prove your point very quickly as I did. The end of the day we all paid those massively over priced site costs only to find out the slab where not sufficently engineeered. my 2c Total Breeze Air Conditioning and Electrical - Based in Melbourne http://www.totalbreeze.com.au Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. In my opinion you dont need to replace or paint the roof other than treat surface rust… 1 10181 Hello everyone, I have a question regarding moving a chandelier after it has been mounted. The chandelier in question is quite large, measuring 4 meters… 0 72331 9 24751 |