Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! Re: Ceiling Heights 5Dec 07, 2014 5:17 pm MezariOz We paid for extra ceiling height for our ground floor on our new build (standard was 2550 we purchased 2700), this cost us approximately $10,000. The display home which we selected as a reference but slightly modified has 2700mm ceilings from the top of the tiles to the underside of the ceiling plaster. On measuring our ceiling when the frame was up, it's 2700mm from the top of the slab to the underside of the timber frame in the ceiling. This means that when we screed and tile, and put plaster on that we'll have a ceiling height of 2650mm. 50mm may not seem a lot to some, but considering we paid $10,000 for 150mm... 50mm equates to approximately $3,333... DOes this seem a fair "tolerance" for that sort of thing? Especially since his display home has 2700mm from top of tiles and we chose that house, but modified room sizes and layouts only. DId he expect us not to put any floor covering on our slab? Should I be chasing compensation? I have a fixed price contract, so really not sure what I can do here. Suck it up as experience? Thanks. As the others have said, room dimensions usually go to frame so actual finished dimensions would be slightly shorter. 2700mm (exact) wall height is very unusual tbh. Pretty sure the plasterer would have been ready to kill whoever built the frame. 2735 or 2750 is far more common as is 2550 over 2500 & 2450 over 2400. Building Standards; Getting It Right! We bought a house in 2015 advertised as a 7/2/2, 4br up, 3br down (7br), and to date, it’s a great house. However, we’ve just had it valued and it’s come in as a… 0 10170 Thanks for sharing. Looks good. The joiner has come back with a quote of close to 5k. I think we are going to not do it. Attaching panelling is something they are dead… 11 10088 Unless the room is for storage then it's non compliant BCA V2 2019 S3 P3.8 You have 2 options 1. The builder deconstructs the section and rebuilds as per plan /… 7 7302 |