Great quality videos thanks, keep em coming!

Hi Josh can u do a full video on finishing this project it’s very interesting to watch thanks.

Why didnt you change soil? Piles and consequences of work needed are cheaper of digging?

Great video. Just a question if your all ready doing driven piles would it be easier to do wooden floor vs a slab foundation or that mean a total redesign of the frame and Truss

@insertphrasehere15

8 ай бұрын

To change over to a wooden subfloor would be a large change to the overall house design and would cost significantly more than simply putting driven piles in under the ribraft. In this case I believe that they put the driven piles in essentially as a means of ground improvement. Essentially, they had a standard ribraft design that they didn't want to mess with, and the geotech came back with poor ground results (the top couple metres were not suitable for founding). They can just throw the driven piles underneath the ribraft and continue with minimal redesign. In some cases liquefaction is the major concern (we have that issue up the Kapiti coast a lot), and in that case piles driven to specific bearing layers is often required (depending on CPT results). Houses in Kapiti often have to be raised for flooding risk (depending on location, but generally is the case in areas where liquefaction is a concern). So the best option there is usually a timber subfloor on driven piles.

I reckon we need a 'Clash of the channels' episode where Josh Chapman meets Scott Brown video ? whaddya reckon ? Best of NZ building meets indeed

Sounds relaxing. Just a curve ball, no money at all.

how much per m2 extra of concrete floor does it cost for the piles ??

Hi Josh, can you do a video on how the timber piles are connected to the slab

@shalimar7100

8 ай бұрын

Piled timber piles never connect to a slab buddy, there's to many gravity loads, and lateral loads, the resistance load to the connection of a slab would comprise the dead load. Hope that helps.

Hi Josh,do you know much more expensive is this type of driven piles foundation in compare our standarts ones? Thanks

@shalimar7100

8 ай бұрын

There no such thing as standard piles, there are either anchored, braced, ordinary or driven, they all have effects for dead loads, live loads, and dynamic loads. Learn the above first, then talk about the expenses.

@Dragouncz

8 ай бұрын

@@shalimar7100 you seem very smart mate, tell me more about it.....please.

@tomboderick5043

8 ай бұрын

That’s a ‘how long is a piece of string’ question, as these kinda piles get done in this way for a specific reason. I’d consider the extra engineering/compliance reports, machinery/operator hire and materials used to give you an idea of cost on top of what you’d see in an average timber-pile house

What do you guys do with the top of the pile above ground that gets cut off? I live in the Hutt so I am interested :)

@shalimar7100

8 ай бұрын

Sounds silly in my experience you are cutting the pile for water run off, chainsaws are pretty good, sabres will do, but a handsaw is the worst

@insertphrasehere15

8 ай бұрын

@@shalimar7100 I was asking what they do with the off-cuts.

@shalimar7100

8 ай бұрын

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