Your so right if ever I build again it will be the old raft slab, i was talking to some concreters and they tell me not much difference between raft…

I've noticed lately a lot of talk about slab heave but also I've been told more volume builder are putting piers in New homes, I'll spoil this a little if…

The picture is not showing but id take a photo and send it off to VBA , i had problems with my ducted heating as well, when i called a…

Well done to walk away in some way its true waffle is not cheap, compared to drainage which should be included in every build if its so important, why should…

My levels were taken by Buratt engineering, sorry fo the very late reply been so busy with builder fixing our house with underpinning, and a full agricultural drainage…

Hi john0322 Depending on what you need to know please PM and we can chat in private I know builders lawyers are on this forum and I'd…

Thanks insider your a true champ.

Hi. Insider me and you have little history even though we have not met in person, we built in portarlington in 2010 at the height of the drought then it…

Thanks for the information i need to do more homework on this , bloody builders honestly.

Its the same in portarlington in Victoria where a flood study was done in 2009, and gazzeted on the 23rd of March 2010 the only reason they had a flood…

No your correct the land must be sloped away from footing, not built up with soil where it can wash away anyway it has to be scraped to fall away…

Hi lisa06
You will find lots of people on this group who are in the same position as all o f us we help each other out by sharing information…

I d recommend anyone to Mark Croft he got us out of the crap , when we where paying for a lawyer and barrister I could never understand why the…

Are you in Melbourne if yes contact burrat engineering he good at what he does he is a civil and structural engineer. Give him a ring , his name…

Yes i was asking if you knew mark croft, if you recall when i joined by that stage we had spent well over 150k and everyone was telling me…

Hi. Lisa06 i think you will find it on tbe AS 2870 as well i think if am not wrong deepending on your soil classification as to how much movement…

I think it is you will find your answers in the VBA standard and tolerances 2015 they were added in, when I posted them by the csiro now I posted…

Ive tried few times to contact the current affair but with no answers, not sure if they have any intrest in the story they ask me to email them documents…

Do you know mark croft legal ex builder turned lawyer.

Look it took changing lawyers as everyone on here was warning me about the lawyer been in it for himself how true that was , he was just playing us…

Hi joker we just won against a major volume builder they must underpinning our house and install underground drainage around the house has i had put in place strip…

Its on facebook in a private forum called negative experice with burbank everyone is on that pageyou will find my problems with pictures to show everyone why its so important…

It almost broke us physically and menatally, only after we changed lawyer after 4 years of heart ache we dumped our lawyer and found .mark croft legal he is a…

Just type in to google AS 2870 1996 it will bring you up for in pdf now there is also a AS2870 2011 it was updated they only added…

UrbanEdge is owned by Burbank homes so I'd be very careful the fact that they are forsing you to use there own building surveyors thats telling me they are hiding…

Have tried asking Doors Galor they costum make doors for all sizes its worth asking them and if they don't i am sure they can help to advise you. …

Have tried to get one costum made from doors golore its no harm asking them since they do make all kind of doors. Hope that helps you or the Doors…