The weather delays and hold ups have been pretty frustrating, but luckily we’ve been able to push ahead on the bedroom side of the house as planned while the other side slowly catches up. It’s been awesome to see the progress and our vision for this part of the house come to life. Now we’re eagerly awaiting for our prefabricated Formance SIP panels to go up. Can’t wait!
All the piles in place on the bedroom side.
Garrick and Ray reviewing our plans before cutting the piles to height and shape.
Tools of the trade
Ray marking the correct heights on each pile.
Garrick cutting each pile very delicately with a chainy!
Exciting to see bearers in place!
The steel for our sub floor arriving on site. This one weighed over a tonne – lots of man power was needed to get it into place!
Lowering the large steel beam into place – because the back of the house cantilevers over the stream we have a lot of steel in the floor!
Dan and Garrick fixing another steel bearer into place.
Kylie watching the builders put a steel bearer into place…..
Then realising I was photographing her!
All the bearers and joists in place. Looking mighty fine!
Garrick doing his thing – you can see how the house hovers right over the stream. This is about where our en suite will be. So cool!
I spent a few days on site giving the guys a hand….or at least I did a lot of watching judging by this photo!
I was using this. For real!
The guys fixing down the strand board flooring.
Almost all of the strand board flooring down, awaiting the SIPs walls to go up. Yahoo!!
Hi Ben,
You and your project are owsome.
We have similar very difficult section in the North Shore and do need some real estimation for foundation costs and terms for foundation construction. Would you, please, share the total costs for piles foundation (labor and materials) and how long did it take.
Cheers
Andrew and Lina
Thanks Andrew and Lina. Appreciate your feedback!
Sounds awesome and a good challenge for you guys! Sure thing. I’m assuming you’ve got all the consents and a handle on those costs sorted.
We had some preparatory groundworks done first to do a general clear out, then cut out the garage area. Along with taking the spoil offsite. In total, I’d say $15,000 + GST for this (incl labour)
Then for the piles themselves. We used a great company called Ground & Pound who supplied all the materials (poles), labour and machinery to then drive around 50 piles into place. We also had a lot of piles for retaining walls and a floating concrete slab for our driveway. Total cost for all of this was $17,000 + GST and that included a lot of messing around when the land got incredibly boggy and couldn’t work for a week or so. I’d definitely recommend you contact them, they were great. Dan is the owner.
Time wise, it’s very fast. You could maybe get it all done in a week (earthworks and piles) if you had your scheduling bang on and had max 2 days of earthworks. Then a day of test piles (so geo-tech can observe) then 2 days to drive them all properly. But two weeks would be a safe bet given weather and other things they find on site once works begin.
This would get you to the point where your builders come in and begin laying the subfloor – bearers etc.
Hope that helps, feel free to ask more questions. Good luck!