Hello,
Please look at the pic attached and could someone please shed some light on how this little pipe works, where the water comes from please.
Normally small drips of water…

Engage a licenced structural landscaper and possibly a plumber first, work out all the finished levels that you will need for the concretor and then pour away. As long as…

That would be your best option. Next time buy a better block haha.
Cheers

Correct drainage of course. I have strip drains myself. The 75mm is negotiable if you have sufficient slope and drainage from the slab and good visual on the termite barrier.…

Just make sure they are well regarded, are licenced etc.
Maybe go to a few new housing estates and ask around or work your way through the master builders index…

Yes connected paths is best. Just make sure your concretor knows what he is doing and is licensed. Don't use some weekend warrior or someone's old mate.
See screenshot from QBCC…

Get. An. Independent. Building. Inspection. Done. At. Every. Stage.

Don't stress, just get a plumber or a structural landscaper to assess your drainage away from the pathways. Also, monitor for flooding when you have your first decent downpour.

Leave it bare, maybe fake grass every where else.

Take photos every day you have ponding of water and email to your builder every day and remind them of their responsibility to adequately drain and protect the foundation during…

Its a brand new estate and the land has been built to comply for any potential flooding.

No it's definitely a waffle pod slab. The height from the vapour barrier to the surface of the slab is approx 650mm. See pic.
Thoughts on how, why, etc?

Hi ,
Where I live, a new display village is being contructed and one of the builders has laid an approx 650mm high slab. Thoughts?
My E slab was around 500mm high…

Amazing how commonplace this has to be. The OP is probably also encroaching on the other neighbours too. Yeah best to let it be, agreed.

Usually 1st consult is free, you might have a leg to stand on and to spend a few hundred on a well drafted legal letter and some legit advice …

Go and see a property lawyer.

I won't give up the location of my build , but I will say this, since I got my "E" slab, the same volume builder has contrsucted most new builds…

Hi,
2 X 10.23kw systems, CEC installers etc, very reputable companies. Both Sungrow 10kw 3 phase inverters, only difference is one is Canadian HiKu 330w and the uses Jinko JKM330M-60 (Cheetah)…

Doesn't need to if it's concrete. Only 50mm to 70mm over 1 metre if it's natural ie soil/ grass. Read your engineering, somewhere it will mention slope for hard constructed…

My Y values from my soil test was 50mm plus long term (50 year ) settlement of 25mm (from Stockland estate geo report). The engineer got 75mm total Y value…

During construction, the builder installed 8 stormwater drains because I asked them too and they were on the slab plans (which I wanted). The temp downpipes were always intact because…

Oh, and my concrete "apron" is about 1.5m to 1.8m around the house , mechanical fixed to the slab. Thanks Einstein.

There is no "uphill" to my slab. Nothing runs into it. The whole estate is flat, level 1 compacted fill. The concrete pathways are not 50mm over 1 metre because…

Tell me how...if you have got something to say, and you can back it up then just say it.

Our house was built on an E waffle pod slab with 45 perimeter concrete piers, on a flat site, lots of drainage and sloping concrete pathways (to strip gravel stormwater…

In Qld it is STA, I don't know about other states.
Good luck.

What tests did he do?

Only a nitwit would buy a block of land without doing basic due diligence. I have heard of developers selling blocks of land filled with rubbish, car bodies etc. Don't…

Why not get a treatment for efflorescence, if it continues to come back or you notice other evidence, then request another inspection. Have a look when it rains as well…

Because if you look at the aluminium frame it too has what looks like white powdery salt deposits , possibly from water trickling down from above?? Just a theory.