NZ Property Investor

CRACKED FOUNDATIONS?

‘New foundations should be designed to mitigate the adverse effects of all potential geotechnical hazards (including soil swell/shrink)’

Given that the majority of the country has been through a fairly dry summer, I thought it would be a good time to revisit a topic I discussed previously (in early 2020), that being house/foundation damage due to expansive soils.

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