Denali Demo and Rebuild

[Denali]

Does anyone know why some of my pics change to this?

 

[Pushka]

Does anyone know why some of my pics change to this?

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Maybe size?

 

[RB]

Does anyone know why some of my pics change to this?

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I think it may be that you have moved the original photo. I had similar and after moving the original out of my Google Photos the red cross showed up on AFF

 

[drron]

It has been happening recently for no good reason. Often just 1 out of 10 all loaded at the same time. I just delete the cross and reload the photo in exactly the same way and always succeeded on the second attempt.

 

[Denali]

We have pods and formwork is almost finished so hopefully slab pour will be Monday.

Our private inspector visited today and said other than a couple of minor things, its looking good.

And random visitor count continues to increase - today was new two dogs that belong to someone up the road that we had to tie up and water until their human came home from work (phone number on their tags) plus two random people rom down the road that stood in front of the driveway for about 15mins, pointing and talking.

The house across the road from us demo'd in December and is not at our stage yet - we demo'd in March. Hoping not to jinx ourselves but also hoping its a sign of good things for us (fingers crossed).

 

[Pushka]

It seems to be moving so fast! Nice.

 

[RooFlyer]

What are the pods made of? What is their function? I'm used to slab being poured onto sand.

 

[Quickstatus]

slab being poured onto sand.

Looks like Polystyrene like material for under slab insulation.

R value for concrete is about 0.1-0.2 per inch concrete thickness. Under slab insulation can add a 1 or more to the R value

 

[Denali]

Im glad Im only hoping for a happy 15-20yrs out of this house because I just dont see they have the same longevity as older houses. Im also told told that recycling cement from these slabs is going to be a nightmare in future.

 

[RooFlyer]

R value for concrete is about 0.1-0.2 per inch concrete thickness. Under slab insulation can add a 1 or more to the R value

OK ... but I have to wonder what the value is of thermally insulating under a slab, against the earth. Thermal variation under most of the house will be close to nil and would the thermal leakage downwards - under the slab - really be worth the cost/use of polystyrene materials?

@Denali - is this something you chose or is it in building regs?

 

[Denali]

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@Denali - is this something you chose or is it in building regs?

Builder. Seems to be standard as we see it everywhere for new builds around us.

 

[tgh]

Nothing to do with insulation..all to do with fast and cheap build..

 

[Denali]

Nothing to do with insulation..all to do with fast and cheap build..

They dont seem to do stump/pier builds anymore and I couldnt call todays prices cheap I do have a friend building a pole house because they are building on the side of a mountain.

 

[Quickstatus]

all to do with fast and cheap build

Why would that make it fast and cheap?

 

[tgh]

NO trenching, no footings, no piers. minimal reinforcing as its a boat..
Reliant on dodgy engineering that fantasises a raft …. "floating" on whatever bearing capacity the terrian may or may not have...

…aaand Denali.. relax.. it will waffle its way along long enough for what you need….

 

[Denali]

NO trenching, no footings, no piers. minimal reinforcing as its a boat..
Reliant on dodgy engineering that fantasises a raft …. "floating" on whatever bearing capacity the terrian may or may not have...

I have 2.5mtr piers and trenching and I have ag drainage that I didnt see on the plans but they installed it yesterday.

We did expect to see reo sticking out of the piers but apparently thats not how its done.

 

[blackcat20]

Waffle slabs are pretty standard in our area, and no piers depending on the soil (we don't have any).

 

[Denali]

Waffle slabs are pretty standard in our area, and no piers depending on the soil (we don't have any).

You perfect lot people with your flat slabs and lower site costs

 

[travelislife]

Nothing to do with insulation..all to do with fast and cheap build..

Yep, I could never have a house I owned built on a waffle slab. Very bad on reactive soils like clay. Can Google the issues from them, all good when it is stable and say in drought for 10 years, then it rains and with clay it causes slab heave, big cracking and movement that shouldn’t happen.

Don’t get me wrong, I guess they are ok if properly engineered (a lot were not, rather ‘copy paste’ jobs on mass housing estates).

 

[Bindibuys]

I have 110 piers under my home, ranging in height from 20cm to 2 meters in height.
Every hole has a name (multiple swear words) as they were hand dug out. Joys of owner building 30 years ago.