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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.
Join me for an inspection of a waffle slab before it is poured.Check out our inspection of this waffle slab before it is poured. Give it a thumbs up if you’d like to know the 10 most important things to look for when inspecting a waffle slab. What are the Components of a Waffle Slab? […]
Water around a waffle pod slab on a reactive clay site is a problem, and it’s not an easy fix once the house is finished. That’s why AS 2870, the Australian Standard for residential slabs and footings, requires surface drainage on a building site to be controlled from the start of site preparation to the […]
A soil test on your property is used to help structural engineers get some information about the soil on your block. The information in a soil test is used by a structural engineer to design the footings or foundations for your new house or house extension. Structural engineers need to know if there are any […]
Slab Heave in Melbourne A recent article by Simon Yohanson in The Age, Melbourne has highlighted the ongoing problem faced by homeowners as slab heave hits Melbourne. “Thousands of suburban homeowners facing financial ruin.
What is Slab Heave? Slab heave occurs in a house concrete slab when the ground moves more than your slab can stand. Waffle slabs and raft slabs are both intended to moderate this ground movement to acceptable limits. The slab doesn’t normally crack, but if the movement in the slab is more than the brickwork […]
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 as it should? I’ll answer those questions and finish with why, in […]
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 […]