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5 d5 dgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Drainage Issue Alongside House

Looks like it is flooding in from your neighbours property. Is the neighbours concrete path sloping towards your fence and dumping water onto your side ? Another issue I…

16 d16 dgroundzerogroundzero posted:
water seeping through from under slab into post hole

Stormwater has to be connected to legal point of discharge sub surface drainage doesn't but where it discharges may cause problems so ideally it should be connected to stormwater usually…

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17 d17 dgroundzerogroundzero posted:
water seeping through from under slab into post hole

They very rarely grade the soil away. I would use builders plastic and make it a double layer you can use it under the deck as well.

17 d17 dgroundzerogroundzero posted:
water seeping through from under slab into post hole

So it has been confirmed there are no plumbing leaks so it could be poor drainage ponding water under or against your slab.
From your videos you have pebble landscaping…

17 d17 dgroundzerogroundzero posted:
water seeping through from under slab into post hole

When you say gushing out do you mean directly under the edge of the slab beam where the plastic is or down below the depth of the slab at the…

17 d17 dgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Active or 'stabilised' slab

Get in contact with a company called slabsense who will set up equipment to measure slab movement on a daily basis. Also contact a geotechnical engineering company that does forensic…

4 months4 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Building on a lot with fill, have retaining wall over 6ft hi

Is it that wet each time you go to site or was that photo taken after a wet few days ?

4 months4 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Building on a lot with fill, have retaining wall over 6ft hi

Does look like you may have drainage issue with the retaining wall from the photo.

4 months4 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Pool area defect floor level raised too high

That is the wrong design, never have a strip drain up against your house. The concrete should slope away from the wall into a strip drain or inlet drain that…

5 months5 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Can anyone please identify what this thing is?

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Can anyone please identify what this thing is?
5 months5 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Can anyone please identify what this thing is?

Go to google earth pro and use the history button at the top of the screen to go back through satellite images from the past and see for yourself if…

5 months5 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Tree Worries.

It's not the roots themselves it's the effect they have on soil moisture. You should have bored piers or screw piles to stop slab settlement. If the trees are removed…

6 months6 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
What is an allowable amount of movement?

Floor levels , footing probes and boreholes with moisture or suction samples.

6 months6 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Modularwalls fence / retaining function & water leakage

I agree with Althom but there also may be a problem with the terra cotta stormwater pipe discharging water in that areas as well. You can just see the top…

7 months7 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Bulge in my fibroglass pool

Did they check the hydro valve ?

7 months7 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Drainage

You can use a better version of a French drain called a cut off drain along your fence line and run a plastic membrane over the ground between the house…

7 months7 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
slab plan

Yes I agree and best to have porches, front columns etc all part of the slab less chance of seperate movement.
This is not a waffle slab it's a conventional…

7 months7 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
water seeping through from under slab into post hole

The soil profile looks like fill which is common in Mickelham. What happens is water permeates through fill and then ponds on the natural soil layer so when you dig…

7 months7 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Void under slab

It may be the trench for the pipe under there that wasn't properly backfilled and compacted. How wide is the settlement area ? The builder will shake it off. Slabs…

7 months7 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Steel stumps, S vs H2, house movement

Are they stumps or screw piles ? How much fill is there, is the site a class "P" ? A "H2" site is not supposed to have stumps it is…

7 months7 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Void under slab

Looks like the fill is settling may be localised hopefully. Do you have the original soil test? One thing I noticed in your photos is you have a tap without…

10 months10 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Cracks in slab!

The photos around the edge would be more to see if the proper drainage was done around the outside of the slab if not then there could be slab…

10 months10 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Cracks in slab!

Get some floor levels done to see whats going on with the slab and take photos around the slab edge to use as evidence if there has been a…

10 months10 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
flooding at side of house after rain

Get a camera plumber inspection of your stormwater drain.
Could it be flowing from the front on the other side of the metal fence or your neighbours property ?

11 months11 monthsgroundzerogroundzero posted:
Building on extremely reactive soil

With that sort of soil type if you ask for a design to include piers then I would also include void formers. That way you should reduce the chances of…

1 year1 yeargroundzerogroundzero posted:
Builder want us to scrap the land to soil

Sounds like rubbish to me. Ask for the contamination report which I doubt they have. If it's part of a normal subdivision it would have had a contamination report…

1 year1 yeargroundzerogroundzero posted:
Drainage issues and water pooling

Need more photos from around the house including your gutters.
We have had 3 of the wettest years in a row for some time so that wouldn't be helping

1 year1 yeargroundzerogroundzero posted:
Advice please

It might be a broken pipe but these things might be the cause or adding to the issue

Advice please
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