Building on land that falls away from the street. These guides cover how to build on a sloping block, the split-level and cut-and-fill approaches, what site classification and reactive clay mean for your footings and why a slope needs a builder set up for it.
What site classification means on a sloping block: the AS 2870 soil classes, why south-east Melbourne clay lands on Class M or H and the footings that answer it.
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Why project-home builders quote sloping blocks out or turn them away, how provisional sums pass the risk to you and what a custom builder does differently.
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The two ways to build on a slope, cut-and-fill and split-level, what each does to site works and retaining, and how to tell which suits your block.
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