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24 November 2020

Re: Ventilation for The FoundationRenovation + Home Improvement

Nov 24, 2020 12:25 pm

I can heartily recommend ALETA industries for subfloor fans, DIY fan kits and vents. Highly knowledgeable, they seem to stock better fans with longer warantees for a good price. Excellent customer service. Compare them. Smaller company that spends less $$$$$ on google ads, but a better business. [c...

Thanks for the recommendation, just got a pair of the fan from Bunnings a few months ago and it seems to work well in m...

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gwu69

4 July 2020

Re: Ventilation for The FoundationRenovation + Home Improvement

Jul 04, 2020 11:11 pm

We did install a pair of fans, it seems getting better than I expected. Cheers,

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13 May 2020

Re: Ventilation for The FoundationRenovation + Home Improvement

May 13, 2020 2:54 am

Thanks for all suggestions, I will first clear all the vents along the wall and make sure they are functional. The drain along the path, then fan solution will be next if it does get worst. I got the plumber and damp removal guys inspect it, no one seems confident to offer a completed solution. Chee...

Thanks for all suggestions, I will first clear all the vents along the wall and make sure they are functional. The drain...

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gwu69

4 May 2020

Ventilation for The FoundationRenovation + Home Improvement

May 04, 2020 1:37 am

We are planing the renovation on the the rendered brick house sitting on the blue stone foundation. The wall and floor was moulded due to the poor ventilation, the house had been surrounded by the concrete veranda On one side and Block the subfloor vents. The current vents sits on the floor levels, ...

We are planing the renovation on the the rendered brick house sitting on the blue stone foundation. The wall and floor w...

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gwu69

28 May 2018

Build over Easement dilemma, Any Suggestions?Landscape & Garden Design

May 28, 2018 11:18 pm

We have a 1.83m Easement along the west boundary, try to apply for BOE consent from council in order to build a masonry fence with wrought iron infills. However, council will not allow the brick pillars within 500mm of Easement, Also suggest only post on the boundary with small footing. How we suppo...

We have a 1.83m Easement along the west boundary, try to apply for BOE consent from council in order to build a masonry ...

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gwu69

11 August 2017

Re: Decorative Light For SkylightLighting + Lighting Design

Aug 11, 2017 12:12 pm

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gwu69

11 August 2017

Decorative Light For SkylightLighting + Lighting Design

Aug 11, 2017 9:34 am

Hi, we are building a French Provincial House with a 2mx1.2m skylight in the void area. We intend to have some lighting between Skylight and Glass diffuser, any suggestion? Electrical think of led downlight project downward, lighting supply mentioned about led stripe around the edge, skylight guys s...

Hi, we are building a French Provincial House with a 2mx1.2m skylight in the void area. We intend to have some lighting ...

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gwu69

6 December 2016

Re: Recirculating Hot Water ServiceHeating, Cooling & Insulation

Dec 06, 2016 10:48 am

The builder suggested us to replace solar hot water with heat pump system, it also fit with recirculating pumps. However, I read some articles that suggested the unit is only work well in warm, humi climate; does it mean the performance in Melbourne winter will be halved? Any thought? I sent your se...

The builder suggested us to replace solar hot water with heat pump system, it also fit with recirculating pumps. However...

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4 December 2016

Re: Recirculating Hot Water ServiceHeating, Cooling & Insulation

Dec 04, 2016 4:47 pm

I don't think the heat pump HWS is going to be too flash when used with a circulation pump. If you disregard the recycle timer I'm using and use purely a time clock, when it's running in the morning and at night only, the circulated water will still call the heat pump on and run the compressor if t...

Thanks, I should find out more about the heat pump.

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gwu69

3 December 2016

Re: Recirculating Hot Water ServiceHeating, Cooling & Insulation

Dec 03, 2016 10:10 am

Reticulated hot water systems are only inefficient energy wise in domestic dwellings if the pump is constantly running. You can increase the overall efficiency with the use of timers to cycle the pump on and off and like you suggest, timeclocks to only run the system at certain time periods. I've m...

Hi, our builder advised us that heat pump will not work on solar hot water, we might have to use normal hot water stora...

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3 December 2016

New CCTV and Alarm system with ZWaves tenologyHome Theatre & Automation

Dec 02, 2016 11:19 pm

Hi, we building a new house. Requires CCTV, ALARM AND VIDEO INTERCOM. Tried to utilize the zwave technology by using alarm sensor as lighting detector especially at night. Security System 1 FM Homtech Omni LTE Panel Controller 1 FM Homtech Omni LTE Code Pad / Console 1 FM Hometech 12Volt 7AH Alarm B...

Hi, we building a new house. Requires CCTV, ALARM AND VIDEO INTERCOM. Tried to utilize the zwave technology by using ala...

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gwu69

15 November 2016

Re: Building a new home with custom builder (Blow the BudgetBuilding A New House

Nov 15, 2016 6:48 am

So you've already signed the contract? In that case, you're most likely committed, unless there is an 'escape' clause in the contract (unlikely), or both you and the builder can both agree to mutually terminate. Have you had any legal advice, either now or at contract signing? We are in the middle ...

We are in the middle of construction, will check if there is a clause.

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gwu69

15 November 2016

Re: Recirculating Hot Water ServiceHeating, Cooling & Insulation

Nov 15, 2016 6:47 am

The cost of the hydronic was ~$14k for 9 panels, 2 towel rails and the boiler installed. It was minus a thermostat/controller as I was supplying my own. Yes I do agree it's much more pricier than ducted heating but it's a nicer heat overall and my kids also have allergies so with that I couldn't pu...

Agree with you, there is no price can compare on the health of family. I should at least use it for all bedrooms.

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13 November 2016

Re: Recirculating Hot Water ServiceHeating, Cooling & Insulation

Nov 13, 2016 7:57 pm

I have a reticulated domestic hot water setup at time with a circulation pump connected to an instantaneous gas hot water boiler. It's actually an combi condensing boiler for my hydronic setup but I'm using the secondary loop for domestic hot water. I set up a recycle timer to run the pump for 3 mi...

Thanks for the information, how much eventually cost for both recirculated hot water and hydronic set up if you don't m...

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gwu69

12 November 2016

Building a new home with custom builder (Blow the Budget)Building A New House

Nov 12, 2016 10:52 pm

We used to build a home with volume builder, no many choice, straight forward, two meetings to get more selections organised. The house was built in 5 months, some minor problem encounter which was a good experience. We now building a new home with custom builder on an irregular block as the plan of...

We used to build a home with volume builder, no many choice, straight forward, two meetings to get more selections organ...

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11 November 2016

Recommendation Timber and Carpet Flooring in MelbourneFlooring & Floor Covering

Nov 11, 2016 11:08 am

Hi, We are building a double story house with timber floor on the ground, carpet on the 1st floor. Any recommendation for the supplier in Melbourne? How do you rate the hardwood and engineering board? We have 4 young active kids and need something durable, protection from the Mark, would engineering...

Hi, We are building a double story house with timber floor on the ground, carpet on the 1st floor. Any recommendation fo...

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gwu69

11 November 2016

Recirculating Hot Water ServiceHeating, Cooling & Insulation

Nov 11, 2016 10:25 am

Hi, so often, we had to wait for minutes before we had the hot water in bathroom. Now, we asked the builder to install the recirculating pump with timer in order to make it ready to use during morning and evening peak hours in the new house. Any thought about this builder reply? Should we need a hea...

Hi, so often, we had to wait for minutes before we had the hot water in bathroom. Now, we asked the builder to install t...

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gwu69

17 January 2016

Landscaping on Irregular BlockLandscape & Garden Design

Jan 17, 2016 4:19 am

We plan to build a provincial home at an irregular block with narrow front inside a court place. The challenge is to provide space for kids to play (4-14), nice relax back yard for a garden addicted, full time working mum with 4 energized kids. Limited back yard for mum (big fan of rose up to 50 spe...

We plan to build a provincial home at an irregular block with narrow front inside a court place. The challenge is to pro...

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gwu69

7 August 2015

Re: Metricon Bordeaux 39Building A New House

Aug 07, 2015 3:05 pm

Hi, it had been a year since we moved in Bordeaux 50 plus an extra room. We are happy with the construction process with minor incidents only, we were same to be unsure Metricon since a lot of negative reviews online. However, Bordeaux is the display home match our requirements closely, then we deci...

Hi, it had been a year since we moved in Bordeaux 50 plus an extra room. We are happy with the construction process with...

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gwu69

21 May 2015

Re: French provincial styleBuilding A New House

May 21, 2015 3:08 pm

Hi Gary Good to hear from you again. Our builder put down the slab then went into liquidation ! We were devastated as you can imagine. Fortunately we were pleasantly surprised that QBE made good our insurance claim. We are just starting again. Present builder ( Gilpip Mornington) is fixing a few th...

Hi, Suze. Sorry, no reply since then as we were busy with building and family. We went for Metroxxx as we quite like th...