Thanks for those suggestions, I think it would cost to much to change the entry around as it would change the roof line but ill check, that may work. although we did want to close off the entry to make it more formal (initially the lounge room had an opening from the foyer but we closed it off.

Hi Guys We just got our first lot of plans back today and there are some things that just arent right and would some some feedback/suggestions http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff235/Jett0807/houseplansdrawing1.jpg First of all The entry to the games room - HATE IT! we want the garage at the back o...

Thanks Last yr we went through 4 bottles during winter however our old house (that we recently sold) was facing the wrong way, up peirs and a very cold house at the best of times, This is trying to make it as energy effecient within our budget. There are to many options other than LPG in our area, s...

We are on LPG for water heating & oven/cooktop. We pay $90/bottle. Only just delivered last Fri, so will keep you posted about our useage. Heating we have a combustion - a Jindara. HH That would be great, thanks So the bottles are for the cooktop & heater? Yes, correct :)

we have the ducted air that we can put to heat but dont really like it for heating, we will be using our gas heater, we bought a rennai avenger 25 (the largest on the market i believe) last yr. AND we might put in a combustion heater down the track - we have a fair few iron barks trees on the proper...

So after getting the model no of the solar HWS the builder was going to put in we have decided to go solar HWS, electric oven, gas cooktop. we will have bottles for the cooktop and after speaking to a few people who have bottled cooktop they advised we should go through about a bottle every 10-12 mo...

I'm so excited about my kitchen (one for the small kitchen enthusiasts plus it will never look this clean again). Handover is tomorrow! http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_WbG33G_iiRs/S-uczHmo-FI/AAAAAAAAA8k/ilj2IizeDJ0/s1600/IMG_5009.JPG http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_WbG33G_iiRs/S-uc3g2U8CI/AAAAAAAAA8s/TWKYVv2g...

Ill be watching this thread with interest. We are looking at the omega electric though - as we dont have gas mains in our area. and didnt want bottles.

Woodland Grey definitely has a distinctive green tinge to it, hence the name woodland. If you're after a grey try Monument, but I have no idea what it would all look like together with your other choices. We opted for Monument on account of the green in Woodland Grey. Some people I'm sure can't pic...

We love the look of the freestanding oven/stoves and ducted rangehoods, since our builder supplies underbench ovens and pull-out rangehoods we have choosen to supply our own. So after initally looking at them on the weekend we are overwhelmed at the different makes/models/options. Does anyone care t...

We got our builder (and several others builders) to do a site inspection in March, everything came back pretty good so on the 1 April we paid our deposit. 2 weeks later we had a contour survey done, the next day or so we changed our plans and design 2 weeks ago we got a new tender. We still havent r...

Will do, ill also ask the builder about it as they acutally mentioned it in the tender. Once i know ill let you know

Thanks, I think the bond off white will be the colour to go with

I need to find out about the rebate cause i have only been able to find a $300 rebate. If you can find info about the $2k rebate can you let me know. (or do you mean the pump is costing that....? our builder is charging $1850 for the pump) After looking at cookware today we will have to go with gas ...

we are also building a ranch style home Bricks are by Austral - goveners range - wakehurst Roof - Bristile Sanctuary - (not a dark grey nor a light grey) Smurfist fascia windspray guttering/downpipes

We are just having second thoughts about the guttering/fascia colour As you can see from my 1st post we are going with the sanctuary roof tile, we want the guttering to be the same colour so it blends in, do you think coloubond windspay is the right colour for this? We have chosen smurfist for the f...

We have spoken about it alot today and we decided to go back to electric cook ware - electric HWS with heat pump and only have LPG gas for our heater. Thanks for all your replies

FYI : we have been on the same gas bottle since July - 10 months - for the cooktop only. Refilling will cost us either $30 or $90 :roll: . Sorry, can't read my own notes from a year ago ::hyst:: But either way, it's dirt cheap. :z: Wow thats cheap, We brought a gas heater last yr for the house we j...

So we wil be on bottled gas at our new place (for gas heater, gas cooktop and gas HWS) and our builder came back and said basically that if we were to have gas HWS we would be chewing through the gas like no tomorrow. Can i have your thoughts on this please, (There are 2 adults and 2 small children)...