After looking at Soils reports and Final engineering document for slab I think now rather than improving their practices, they have started to put the conditions so that everything can…

You're neighbours cannot concrete with a slope that creates runoff for an adjoining property. If they have a good concreter (and you had better hope they do) the concreter…

We almost need in contracts that within tolerances won't be accepted if workmanship is not up to display quality, in reality almost no volume builder has intentions or ability to…

Firsthomebuyer88
Your friends may have had a cut and fill as part of the earthworks done at the subdivision stage by the developer and your cut and fill will be done…

I agree if you spent enough money you can make slabs have no issues but the problem is that the majority of theses
slabs wouldn't have problems if things were…

FirstHome Buyers88
You are in a high risk area and built during a high risk time for slab heave but still your chances of
having slab heave are still low.
If you have…

Bump.
I thought it was time to revisit this thread. If you are building on reactive soils spend some time and read ALL of this thread. It just may save…

Just getting back to slab heave, what I am seeing even today are human failings and glaring lack of enforcement of regulations and standards. I regularly see lack of proper…

Spot on! You cannot have technical solution to what are essentially human failings.
We all know we should not sign a building contract without reading and understanding but it happens all…

This is one point that is am relying on the builder's experience of such situations. The builder has insisted that this is a cracked pipe issue coupled with the truss…

Very instructive article from Adam M
If you were ill and the diagnosis was bleak you would be wanting a second opinion right? So why not when you have serious problem…

I hope you have photos.
Get some drains in temporarily if water mounts up that bad

I am an advocate of insurance scheme where dwellings that cannot be fixed and brought to original tolerances are declared a writeoff and bought by the insurer at fair market…

I fully agree with you, As a young QS on my second job I joined Vic public service and was told on my first day not to take bills of…

Dont make me laugh!
You might like to tell that to the hundreds of people who have been to QCAT chasing builders to rectify their mistakes who are well out of…

You could write a comedy about it if it wasn't so tragic.
Building Commission that was in charge of building control considered building industry a stakeholder even wining and dining them.
That's…

NSW seems pretty much the same as Vic in my experience. The Dept of Fair Trading is pretty much a toothless tiger and the same licensed tradesmen seem to get…

It's all pretty simple really. The problem is either a design fault or a construction fault. Working out if something is a design fault is easy enough to do in…

Thanks insider.
I have seen dished slabs and you have now confirmed that elastic deflection has transitioned into creep and with no known remedy.
Your at the coal face experience is invaluable.…

Thanks for the reply. We ended up getting an independent assessor in to write up a detailed report on our property. There is slab movement but that is…