Browse Forums Building A New House Re: 2 Storey Extension- floor plan comments, Perth, WA 2Feb 25, 2020 8:37 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: 2 Storey Extension- floor plan comments, Perth, WA 5Feb 26, 2020 8:37 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: 2 Storey floor plan feedback, Perth, WA 8Feb 26, 2020 10:47 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: 2 Storey floor plan feedback, Perth, WA 13Feb 26, 2020 11:36 pm Sorry, a few typos there. Won't edit the post, as it screws with the formatting of the quote for some reason on this website. Hopefully you can make sense of it. A couple of other things. Firstly, east/west windows. Difficult to shade (eaves are ineffective in these directions). I'd certainly be removing the western window in bedroom 3. West facing bedrooms are a bad idea.. They'll receive sunshine all afternoon, at the hottest time of the day. Just before kids go to bed. I single southern window will be fine. Similar story for the eastern windows. Difficult to shade. Though this occurs at a better time of the day, in the morning, the heat will still contribute to total heat load of the house. So it's be keeping the eastern bedroom windows quite small, just enough to aid cross ventilation. The northern & southern bedroom windows can be larger. Staircases. Don't know what you have planned, but I hate open staircases in open planned homes. They just act as giant chimneys, removing any thermal control you have over your home. I'm winter you want your downstairs living room to be warm, you don't want to have that heat escape upstairs. In summer you want to be able to keep your upstairs bedrooms cool, not have the days heat load flowing up to the bedrooms. So it's be having an enclosed staircase, with a door at the bottom. Keep the door closed in winter, to keep your main living area warm. In summer, keep the door closed in the day, to try to limit the temperature increase in the bedrooms in the day. Once it's cooled down in the evening, open the home's windows to purge heat, & open the stairway door, using the stack effect to aid the flow of cooling breezes. Hi there! Absolutely agree on the wasted space. We have no desire for the master to be that oversized, but it occurred when we increased the depth of the garage. We have… 4 12921 6 56199 Hi, Seeking volume or semi-custom builder in victoria(east), which have existing double story wide floor plans. Seeking 18-20m wide homes with depth of 12-15m long. Or… 0 25591 |