Tag Archive: Slope
Buying A Sloping Block.

It doesn’t take much of a slope to mean that costs will increase. For the last house I built, in 2005, a 0.8m slope over a 26m wide by 32m deep block added $4,800 to the cost. That’s for much…
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Exercise House

I probably walk past at least 5,000-6,000 different houses a year but this one has more front steps than any other I have seen. Really good for making sure your glutes are well toned with 35 steps just to get…
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Drop Edge Beams

If you want to build your new home on a slope you may need to have the additional cost of needing drop edge beams on the low side of the slabs. These are a sort of retaining wall to hold…
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