Which type of residential slab system should you choose if you want fewer slab cracks in your house slab? Should you choose a waffle slab or a conventional raft footing and slab when building a new house? Does it even matter if your house slab cracks? Before we get started, we need to understand what […]
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The words from our Youtube video on fixing the drainage for houses on sloping sites are here for your reading convenience. You can watch the video on this page. If you’ve got a house built on a sloping site and you’ve got drainage problems, then this video is for you. Today we’re talking about where […]
Here’s a list of things that make houses move and crack. How many of these can you identify in your house:
Slab Heave in the News I have been following, with interest, the recent spate of slab heave issues in the western suburbs of Melbourne. The recent VCAT decision against Metricon (Hooper v Metricon Homes Pty Ltd (Domestic Building) [2014] VCAT 277 (18 March 2014)) (and the latest decision against Metricon) is the very tip of […]