This may be a long going post as it hasn't left Canada yet. But started the ground works for it. Dug the hole for the concrete pad for the pier. Here's a pic of it. Concrete to be poured, Tuesday.
hi Simon yep a deck is the best way to go mine is sitting on one and it is around 200mm off the ground works perfectly .
did you order yours threw Mathew Lovell ? down in SA
cheers Pete
The pad was poured on Tuesday afternoon, It ended up a little larger than I planned 1.3 cu^3 meters. Oh well, there it is now, pity the next owners of the house if they want to pull up!
Got the decking finished, just needs painting now. I hope it's all in the right place for the pod to fit over, if it isn't I'll have to put an extension on it!!! As you see it the total cost up to now is only $28 and that was for a bit of the flooring. All of the rest of the materials were laying around. The rest was made up of selling a 2.8 sliding door that I'd had taken out of the house that we didn't want any more. I forgot there was the cost of a slab of beer the pier.
I originally had decking but got sick of the mold and dirt so I blue boarded over the top and water proofed the tiled much easier to keep clean .
but I did like the look of the decking thats a hefty pier I think I used the same amount of concrete for mine nice and solid she ain't gona move thats for sure