Recent content by Dave Johnson

Hi Wessex i'm the chap who was talking to you a few weeks back about my foundations I found out the reason why the council wanted a floating raft foundation it's because the soil is expandable soil, it can shrink and expand depending on the weather do you think this might be a problem in the...

Lol

That's true woody, nice one.

Sorry, I meant stuttering it off then building a raft and filling it with concrete.

Don't mess about.

Is there any way I can put this right may be digging all the way round the foundation exposing the concrete then building a raft all the way round then Shuttering and fitting it with concrete do you think that will solve the problem.

One thing I was looking at was because of the trench collapsing when digging it made trench about 6ft wide and 2 meters deep it cost me £1500 in concrete to fill which was way over what i needed to dig all most double what was on the drawings, do you know if that would make it as strong has if...

That's what I was thinking, but the building as been passed off now and the builder is no where to be found. There's no problems with the building so far but what do you think could go wrong in the future.

I think the original house was built on a raft foundation that's the trouble, I don't know why the inspector didn't want us to put a raft when it stated on the drawings that it needs one, The local council insists you need a raft to build on the area I live in I've asked over five of the...

It was raining the whole time they was digging out the footing with a mini digger I think that's why it was collapsing so much.

The Connie footings next door are sitting on 400mm I think, and yes it was a privete inspector.

Hi I'm Dave I don't know if anybody could help me but I have a bit of a problem with my two story extension I had built eight months ago, I live in a soft clay area my original house was built in the late 50s the house sitting on 400mm concrete foundation, when I had the drawings done building...