Soil Testing in Melbourne
Soil testing in Melbourne is a necessary first step in home or commercial construction planning. Through soil testing, you can ascertain whether the soil in your building site is suitable for your home building project.
During soil testing in Melbourne, the types of soils onsite are identified and classified according to their density, strength, contamination and compaction. Without proper soil testing, your house may end up damaged after some time or become structurally unsound due to changes or movements in the soil.
This is a necessary procedure that needs to be followed to prevent you from wasting your resources on a house that’s designed to fail if the site turns out to be unsuitable or unstable. If there are problems with the soil, there are certain structural design approaches that can help you address such concerns.
Service Information
When conducting a soil test, the following activities are generally implemented in accordance with Australian Standard AS 2870/2011-Residential slabs and footings:
- Site classification
- Providing Ys values
- Recommendation of footing depths
- Recommending the allowable bearing pressures
- Determination of shear strength
- Compressive strength testing
When you get experts to do soil testing in Melbourne, you can expect the above services to be done.
FAQs
- Class A: Stable and non-reactive, with little or no ground movement due to moisture changes.
- Class S: Slightly reactive, with slight ground movements due to moisture changes.
- Class M: Moderate ground movements due to soil conditions and moisture changes.
- Class H1/H2: High to very high levels of ground movements due to soil conditions and moisture changes.
- Class P: Sites where the soil has a very poor ability to bear loads evenly.