Reinforcement / Armature visible

Usually, a fairly wide frost skirt is concreted. The floor slab is placed on that. The frost skirt then extends, for example, 30cm above. On this "overhang" the insulation and perimeter insulation as well as the bricks are placed. They are certainly not separate foundations.

That's how it looks for us too. The bricks also stand on a proper slab like that. Even if bricks don't hold anything, they do weigh quite a bit.

What did the assessor say now?

So,

hereby I am speaking up again

I barely had time due to the circumstances on the construction site and work.
There was a crisis meeting on the construction sites. The neighbors are building with the same company and the same problem has arisen there.

We therefore met with management, the site manager, an expert appointed by us, and an independent structural engineer.

The defect was immediately acknowledged by the developer and improvement was promised. It should be mentioned again that the work was carried out by an external structural engineering company on behalf.

The expert and structural engineer also immediately agreed on the necessary repair work.

This proposed solution has already been discussed and approved by the developer.


The repair proposal is as follows:

The strip foundation is gradually exposed. It is cleaned and a hole is drilled into the existing foundation every 30 cm. Iron rods are inserted and compacted with a special material (I can’t think of the word right now).

Then a new strip of concrete is applied. The iron is intended to secure the connection.
Overall, the slab including the strip foundation will not be significantly wider than planned (this was also important to me because otherwise the downpipes would have to be laid unsightly).

The damage should be able to be 100% repaired, provided the remedial work is carried out professionally and as proposed.

After the conversation earlier this week, a weight was lifted off our shoulders.

Please understand that I cannot describe the work here in detail, as I have not yet received the expert report.

That was too much input in the meeting round.

I will get in touch....

Sounds similar to the other case here. What matters now is the professional expertise. It is now significantly harder to fix the improper initial installation than to do it right from the start. So it has to be done by someone who really knows what they are doing. The whole thing must be dry and frost-proof in the end, so that there are no cracks and such.

You should charge the expert costs to the construction company, or negotiate something or the like. They can be glad that the damage was recognized now and not in 5 years.

Good luck!

...And patience... And mental strength!

Hello forum members,

unfortunately, due to time constraints, I have not been able to continue my post here until now. I have had the expert report at home for about 2 weeks.

Since new defects were repeatedly identified, I absolutely had no headspace for my post here.

Only yesterday did I fail the leak test. The reason for this is a defective pipe embedded in the foundation.
At the same time, the painting company I commissioned found that the drywall panels in the slopes are partially not mounted on battens and therefore have about 2-3 mm play. This repeatedly causes cracks in the filler.

This week (I hope) the drywall will be torn out again for the second time. Before that, we had mold on it.

Nevertheless, I hereby provide excerpts from the expert report on the actual topic of the foundation.



As of today, 11.10.2016, the renovation has not yet started.
The construction company is in a legal dispute with the subcontractor responsible for it.
When calling my construction company, no one is initially reachable, and one waits in vain for a callback.
If someone is reachable, one receives short, curt and almost cheeky answers.

No one has contacted us on their own initiative so far.

The planned move-in date is 01.11.2016

Move-in date should be 01.11.2016

You should definitely take the last paragraph of the excerpt from the expert report posted here seriously! As unpleasant as it is, I would postpone the move-in date until further notice and consult a specialist lawyer for construction law. I suspect this will ultimately be cheaper than accepting the house as is. If you move in on 1.11. without legal counsel, it will be equivalent to acceptance.