I am in the process of building a double storey home. Its a 35 sq home and am confused in following areas among various options available.
Cooling and heating
- My builder is giving me evaporative cooling to first floor with gas ducting throughout the house.
- I also have an option to go gas ducted heating with brivis add on cooling for about 11k(which just seems too much.
Would it be better to go evaporative now, save up and add splits if needed or evaporative is just not worth.
Flooring
Confused if 450X450 matt finish tiles would be better than 300X600 high gloss porcelain..
I have lived in a house with porcelain before and felt keeping them clean becomes challenging considering even dried water droplets shine pretty bright
- ceramic is saving me about 3.5K as well.
Would appreciate peoples thoughts with these
Refrigerated/Evaporative and ceramic/procelain
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Why not to go with engineered timber, you pay less and get much warmer and softer floor.
Personally would never live in a house with tiled floor (unless it is in a tropical climate) as I enjoy walking around barefooted.
Personally would never live in a house with tiled floor (unless it is in a tropical climate) as I enjoy walking around barefooted.
I have seen a few installations and most of them tend to have a cracky sound of wood planks rubbing each other which we don't prefer.
Hence looking to go tiles and are looking for something thats more durable and works well with water spills.
Hence looking to go tiles and are looking for something thats more durable and works well with water spills.
the sound you mention is poor installation. you shouldnt expect that to carry over to yours, if it does, it would be a defect and beed to be rectified.
11j for refrigerated cooling on a 35sq home? that's cheap. In my opinion refrigerated > evaporative. Some people disagree. Something to keep in mind though, evaporative requires windows to be open for it to be effective and on stinking hot days it wont do anything except increase the humidity in your home. Id be looking to get bnoth floors cooled with refrigerated cooling.
as to tiles, that a personal prefernce. But surely you have mor ethan just ceramic 450 square matte and 300-600 porecialn gloss as options? Or are you going with one of these quick preselected pallette options? If so, they should still give you an opportunity to customise some minor aspect like flooring if the two options available arent suitable
11j for refrigerated cooling on a 35sq home? that's cheap. In my opinion refrigerated > evaporative. Some people disagree. Something to keep in mind though, evaporative requires windows to be open for it to be effective and on stinking hot days it wont do anything except increase the humidity in your home. Id be looking to get bnoth floors cooled with refrigerated cooling.
as to tiles, that a personal prefernce. But surely you have mor ethan just ceramic 450 square matte and 300-600 porecialn gloss as options? Or are you going with one of these quick preselected pallette options? If so, they should still give you an opportunity to customise some minor aspect like flooring if the two options available arent suitable
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