Browse Forums Heating, Cooling & Insulation 1 Jan 06, 2016 9:49 am Hi all, Our house is nearing completion and we're looking at getting evaporative cooling installed post handover. It's too late now, but a few told us that we should have got combined heating/cooling so that we only had the one duct in the ceiling. It was out of our budget at the time unfortunately. So now we're going to have a round duct for the heating, round LED lights and square ducts for the cooling. Does anyone else have this in their ceiling? I'm just wondering if it's going to look as bad/busy as I picture in my head. We don't have a lot of other options (which we can afford), however if anyone has any pictures of their own ceiling they're willing to share, that would be greatly appreciated. Kindest regards, JP79 Re: Fighting for ceiling space 2Feb 14, 2016 5:32 pm I think it can look so as it is done well. Unfortunately I don't have any photos that you would want to see of such a set up as the ceiling in our 20 year old house we bought a few years ago looks as though it was built by someone who never looked up! I'm in the middle of working out how to reposition or outright remove some of our cooling and heating vents in the ceiling in some rooms. They're either off centre or not aligned with the other ceiling items - lights etc. It is a major pain. We recently had LED downlights installed and thankfully the sparky was happy to work with me to align them to the way I want the ceiling layout completed. Unfortunately, moving the heating and cooling ducts may be a little more difficult. It's ok where I am removing ducts, however in our dining kitchen area we have 2 x 4 grille vents, instead of a larger, single, centralised 6 grille vent. To do that will require replacing entire sections of ducting. There are a few reasons I'm going to all this effort. One, the heating and cooling don't work efficiently throughout the house, so reducing the number of vents will help with that. Two, make it more visually appealing. Three, improve access in the roof space. So my only advice, make sure everything is centred and aligned and necessary! You can really use anything you want the main consideration would be how it looks once painted/finished - or the look you want. Cabinetmakers use MDF because its cheap… 2 9948 Cupcake.girl This really depends on your local council. Each one has different definitions and ways to calculate contributions. This is called a contribution… 1 3578 dimensions on your original plan are inconsistent and with accurate dimensions (including site plan, upstairs and down) i could make a proper scale drawing with furniture… 3 7499 |