Thanks mate, I checked with our local council and there is no guidelines to design or gradients.
All we can argue is that the driveway is defective as it cannot be…

OK so the driveway was redone by another company and I can get a lowered car in no problem.
I am trying to work out the gradient percentage of the 3500mm…

I have a lot of pictures but we are looking to take things further and I will post some soon.
We have a 45mm incline in to one room, alfresco appears…

We had to fight to get a copy of it and eventually through council as the builder and building surveyor wouldn't supply a copy of it.
We have has the report…

There have been a lot of corners cut with out build and the rectification works are worse than the initial issue. Make some calls today to some NATHERS experts who…

We will pass it all on and see what happens but being first time home builders I guess you shouldn’t put your faith in the builder doing the right or…

The builder used their own building surveyor and inspector, they picked up on some issues but none of the major issues we face now.
We sent off the report to…

Hi all,
We have a lot of ongoing issues with our house and recently after going through the reports it appears that the people who did the report weren’t supplied or…

We have a large incline in to a room that needs to be ground down to create a level bench.
Have spoken to a couple of companies to do so…

I know it's been a few months but we have had so many ongoing issues with the house it's at the point we need a structural engineer to come in…

We have not had a report done and it appears there are several issues.
Driveway poured at 65-70mm.
Lack or ableflex against driveway and garage.
Driveway must be designed to access the garage.
Now…

There are no trees or have even been trees on the property.

Hi all,
We have had ongoing issues with our house and we finally have a fix for an issue that has rendered part of a room useless to use.
The builder has…

Thanks mate, already doing that as it comes and goes between wet and dry months, we now have zig zagging though brick work and cracks through bricks.

It states Depth (mm) Number of blows DCP-A and DCP-B
Bore log is also supplied.
Our land was water logged and was considered fill and we have since the first week had…

Hi all,
We have been going through all the documents regarding our house build and something that has come up recently is the soil compaction.
Trying to find out the what difference…

Just the other day the driveway has cracked all the way through and all the way across to the other side. I am now concerned to even use the driveway…

We didn't have one done as we are having a deck entrance built leading up to the front door from the foot path.

No the 1500mm is at garage level.
The slope downwards is towards the footpath.

The top 1500mm is at the garage height then slopes to the footpath, I have to put cars on ramps made of timber to get anything other than a 4x4…

Looking at the photos it is definitely not think enough as the thickest part I can find is 75mm and it has risen at least 40mm out of the ground.
The…

I have that section with me but what I need to know if there is a gradient guideline as this really is the biggest issue we have.

Agreed but he is adamant that there are NO guidelines or Australian Standards for driveways.

Hi all,
We have a driveway that was completed in 2019 that I would say is rather steep as the gradient is a straight ledge like platform from the garage for…

We are waiting on the stamp approved surveyors plans that should show all the details, we have a feeling the FFL was either never done or the final plans were…

As we slowly go through all the issues with our house we seem to come across more and more problems, like a building lasagna.
Looking through all the photos it appears…

Hi all,
Strange one but looking over the drawings of our new house and the FFL hasn't been listed by the builder AND the builder won't advise what the FFL is…

Agree on the driveway as our neighbor has the same issue with theirs and built with a different concretor.
Our issue is that we never saw or signed off on…

Hi all,
I have searched, googled, Yahoo’d etc and after having some issues of our new house that was only complete months ago it has come to our attention that the…