Are waffle slabs able to satisfactorily protect Australian homes from slab heave and foundation movement? This question is for you, structural engineers and geotechnical engineers and foundation specialists of Australia. If you are applying AS2870 to waffle slab designs please comment below. We want to hear from you.
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Here’s a question about waffle slabs on Class H2 soil that we have been asked more than once: “We have a soil test for our new house. It came back as Class H2. The builder we went to is planning on using a waffle slab. Will our house be ok?” So let’s work out some of the […]
I took the time to read right through the Softley v Metricon Homes Pty Ltd decision that was published by VCAT on 11 December 2014. Metricon was ordered to pay costs to knock down and rebuild the Softley’s house. I was editing some of my waffle slab posts when I suddenly realised that the amount of […]
Let’s face it. If you even know what a waffle slab is, you’re either building one or having one built. What are waffle slabs? Are they a great idea? What can you do as a homeowner to make sure your waffle slab performs within expectation? I’ll answer these questions and finish up with why, after […]
G’day. This is Matt Cornell from Cornell Engineers. This is a waffle slab inspection that we did a little while ago and I wanted to go through and put some words to it to let you know what we’re looking at during this inspection. So here we go coming in from the front I’ll just […]