Call
Quickest option, especially if there is a date attached. Say the date on the call.
Or send the details
Fill this in and someone will come back to you. Photos of the floor, the outside of the house and the subfloor answer most questions before they are asked.
Request a quote
What helps with a quote
- The address or town. The overlays are checked from it, and flood-prone land or a heritage precinct changes the paperwork.
- What the house sits on. Timber stumps, concrete stumps, brick piers or a slab. If you do not know, a photo under the house tells us.
- What you have noticed. Which rooms slope, which doors stick, where the cracks are, whether it changes with the seasons.
- Clearance and access. Roughly how high the floor is off the ground and whether there is a side path a barrow or a small machine could use.
- Photos. The worst room with a level or a marble on the floor, the outside of the house showing the baseboards, and anything under the floor you can reach.
- Any paperwork. A building or pest inspection report, an old building permit, an engineer's letter.
- The date. Settlement, a builder's start, or a floor that is getting worse quickly.
Areas covered
Warragul, Drouin, Trafalgar, Yarragon, Darnum, Nilma, Neerim South, Rokeby, Willow Grove, Thorpdale, Trafalgar South, Buln Buln, Ellinbank, Lardner, Drouin West, Drouin South, Longwarry, Bunyip, Garfield, Jindivick, Tynong, Hallora, Labertouche and Tanjil South, along with the farms and districts between them across Baw Baw Shire and into Cardinia.
If it is urgent
A floor that has dropped suddenly, a stump that has given way under a load, or a house that has moved after a landslip or flood is a different kind of job. If anyone is in danger, call 000. If the house is unsafe but nobody is at risk, keep people off the affected floor, tell your insurer, and the council's municipal building surveyor can be contacted about emergency building action.
What this site cannot help with
Nobody here can issue a permit, tell you over the phone what class your soil is, or design underpinning. For a planning question, Baw Baw Shire Council is on 03 5624 2411. For a registered practitioner, search the Building and Plumbing Commission's register.