dsaunders

Hello, we are currently awaiting our SE to complete design for our rc ground beam and pile layout. I just wanted to write here to get a second opinion hopefully, as currently it looks to be a very expensive option! Ultimately I trust he knows best, after all he is the expert, but considered there was nothing lost putting it here for some thoughts. So we had some trial holes completed, findings were not great, SE came back another time as it was variable between different locations but it was worse second time around. Had to arrange boreholes, one at 10m and one at 20m. Both borehole results were wet, white chalk (recovered as putty chalk). Our builder suggested a raft, and after reading on this forum and seeing they appear very popular, I suggested this to the SE but he advised our ground conditions vary too much for a raft? So now we have seen his assessment and load capacity possibility, the report suggests 16m and 20m piling ( not sure if they go as deep as that, or just his assessment ), which will be a huge increase in our quotes received for 6m. I appreciate we’re still awaiting his design but any thoughts are welcomed.